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Climate inequality : carbon capture for redistribution

Belfiori, Elisa; Macera, Manuel - 2024

capture serves as a redistribution tool when direct lump-sum transfers across regions are unfeasible. …

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Public capital and income inequality : some empirical evidence

Li, Yanbai; Murshed, Syed Mansoob; Papyrakis, Ellissaios - 2021

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Public Investment When Capital is Back - Distributional Effects of Heterogeneous Saving Behavior

Mattauch, Linus - 2014

We study the impact of heterogeneous saving behavior on the distributional effects of public investment. A capital tax is levied to finance productive public capital in an economy with two types of households: high income households who save dynastically and middle income households who save for...

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Public investment when capital is back : distributional effects of heterogeneous saving behavior

Mattauch, Linus; Edenhofer, Ottmar; Klenert, David; … - 2014

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Imperfect financial markets and the cyclicality of social spending

Froemel, Maren; Paczos, Wojtek - 2024

This paper explores the link between default risk and fiscal procyclicality. We show that countries with higher sovereign risk have a more procyclical fiscal expenditure policy, which is driven mostly by transfers. We build a small open economy model with income inequality, social transfers, and...

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The politics of redistribution and sovereign default

Scholl, Almuth - 2023

a two-party system in which the left-wing party has a larger preference for redistribution than the right-wing party … government has incentives to fi- nance redistribution via external debt to avoid distortionary income taxation. On the other hand …

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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers

Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006

additional limit to redistribution is the fact that even very altruistic agents can deliberately reduce its scope because of its …

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Redistribution with unequal life expectancy

Köhne, Sebastian - 2023

optimal income tax policy using theory and calibration. A positive association between life expectancy and income counteracts … the well-known static pattern of declining marginal utility. As a result, the mechanical value of redistribution is … effects of the mechanical value of redistribution dominate, and the optimal marginal tax rates fall by up to 10 percentage …

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A unified perspective on efficiency, redistribution, and public policy

Kaplow, Louis - 2020

Specialized theoretical and empirical research should in principle be embedded in a unified framework that identifies the relevant interactions among different phenomena, enables an appropriate matching of policy instruments to objectives, and grounds normative analysis in individuals' utilities...

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Optimal carbon taxation and horizontal equity : a welfare theoretic approach with application to German household data

Hänsel, Martin C.; Franks, Max; Kalkuhl, Matthias; … - 2021

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 …

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