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Welfare Effects of Indirect Tax Policies in West Africa

Babatoundé, Alain; Capéau, Bart; Houssa, Romain - 2023

In West Africa, the Value Added Tax (VAT) policy consists of a uniform tax rate, but several items consumed by rich and poor households, are exempted. We provide an optimal tax framework to reflect on the welfare effects of such a tariff structure, in the context of current debates on domestic...

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Redistribution of Return Inequality

Schulz, Karl - 2021

conventional wisdom, rather than calling for more redistribution, the presence of this scale dependence provides a rationale for …. At an aggregate level, a rise in redistribution induces a compression effect on the distribution of pre-tax returns. In … the financial market, I identify general equilibrium trickle-up externalities that provide a force for more redistribution …

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An Unemployment Re-Insurance Scheme for the Eurozone? Stabilizing and Redistributive Effects

Dolls, Mathias - 2020

This paper develops a decomposition framework to study the importance of different stabilization channels of an unemployment re-insurance scheme for the euro area. Running counterfactual simulations based on household micro data for the period 2000–16, the paper finds that the re-insurance...

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The Cost of Public Funding with Direct and Indirect Taxation - a Revisit

Holtsmark, Bjart; Holtsmark, Katinka Kristine - 2021

The paper shows that the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) does not depend on whether public revenue is collected by taxation of consumer goods or income from factors supplied by households on the market. Atkinson and Stern (1974) concluded in their seminal paper that “[...] whether the...

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Taxes, Status Goods, and Piracy

Balestrino, Alessandro - 2012

This paper studies the design of indirect redistributive taxation and of corrective taxation, as well as the formation of equilibrium indirect tax policies via a political process, in the presence of status goods, allowing for the possibility that illegal copies of those goods may be purchased...

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Tax Evasion and Competition

Goerke, Laszlo; Runkel, Marco - 2021

Using a Cournot oligopoly model with an endogenous number of firms and evasion of indirect taxes, this paper shows that more intense competition may have the negative side-effect of eroding tax revenues by increasing tax evasion. This will be the case if market entry costs decrease. A similar...

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The Distributional Consequences of Rent Seeking

Angelopoulos, Angelos - 2019

Rent seeking leads to a misallocation of resources that worsens economic outcomes and reduces aggregate welfare. We conduct a quantitative examination of the distributional effects of rent extraction via the financial sector. Rent seeking introduces a possibility for insurance against...

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Theoretical and practical arguments for modeling labor supply as a choice among latent jobs

Dagsvik, John K.; Jia, Zhiyang; Kornstad, Tom; … - 2012

paper we argue that practicality is not the only feature that can be addressed by means of stochastic choice theory. This … theory also offers a powerful framework for developing a more realistic model for labor supply choices, founded on …

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Prosociality, Political Identity, and Redistribution of Earned Income : Theory and Evidence

Dhami, Sanjit S. - 2018

that the choices of the proposers and the responders are consistent with social identity theory (higher offers and lower …

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Redistribution Through Income Taxation and Public Utility Pricing in the Presence of Energy Efficiency Considerations

Feger, Fabian - 2018

, the effectiveness of the electricity tariff as a redistribution device is questionable in the presence of a progressive … model predicts that electricity prices should be subsidised in the presence of purely income redistribution concerns, we … conservation as well as income redistribution …

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