This paper addresses the issue of how to estimate by contingent valuation methods the maximum price consumers are willing to pay when a new quality is available for a market good for which quantity adjustments are possible. We argue that current practice, which typically does not specify a...

This paper employs a microeconometric framework to examine the labor supply responses and the welfare effects from replacing current tax systems in Italy, Norway and Sweden by a flat tax on total income. The flat tax rates are determined so that the tax revenues are equal to the revenues as of...