pension benefit rule that is adopted. If this rule incorporates some implicit or explicit redistribution from healthy to … unhealthy individuals then the latter types are better off as a result of the pension system. In the absence of redistribution …

This article presents a novel explanation why demand for redistribution on average does not respond to information on … observed unresponsiveness of demand for redistribution may result because the group which drives the effect on beliefs does not … increase demand for redistribution and may even decrease it. Indeed, despite the strong perception shift in the high …

In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution over the last … three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This … relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …

This paper analyses the importance of fiscal mechanisms for regional risk sharing and redistribution in Switzerland …

We develop a model of optimal carbon taxation and redistribution taking into account horizontal equity concerns by …-efficient households if and only if social inequality aversion is sufficiently high. We further find that redistribution of carbon tax …