We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be …

usually taken as an argument against the necessity of government intervention through Pigouvian taxation in order to correct … be prevented from always trying to exploit all gains from trade, may in fact be solved by taxation. Thus, in our … framework Coasean bargaining is not a substitute for Pigouvian taxation; instead it is the very reason for government …

financed through age-dependent taxation that distorts human capital investment. Taxes redistribute income both across different …

understand why tax systems look the way they look. Finally, we exploit a database of reforms in labour taxation in the European …

We explore the consequence for taxation and regulation of bonus pay when investors are protected by taxpayers from …