This paper builds a single model that can be used to show efficiency and distributional effects of eight different … approaches can be designed to have the same efficiency effects, even while they have different distributional effects. For … efficiency, enforcement capabilities, and political feasibility). The paper ends with a discussion of likely trade-offs among …

This paper describes an efficiency approach to the evaluation of policy changes. Rather than comparing the utility …

instruments. In a simple model with identical consumers, we show conditions under which the same efficiency can be attained by the … efficiency can again be obtained, but only if each person's gasoline tax rate can be made to depend on the characteristics of the …

research and several equity and efficiency concerns accompanying cigarette taxation debates. It includes economic analysis of …

This paper estimates the efficiency consequences of interactions between nominal tax systems and inflation in open … capital movement and influencing domestic and foreign tax receipts, saving, and investment. The efficiency costs of inflation …

This paper employs analytical and numerical general equilibrium models to assess the efficiency impacts of two policies … put the carbon quota at a signficant efficiency disadvantage relative to the carbon tax: the costs of reducing emissions …. Indeed, second-best considerations severely limit the potential of a carbon quota to general overall efficiency gains. Under …