Lai, Ching-Chong; Liao, Chih-Hsing - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 22 (2012) 1, pp. 66-77
This paper develops an endogenous growth model with a production externality and nonlinear income taxation, and uses it to examine how the fiscal authority devises its nonlinear tax structure from the viewpoint of welfare maximization. It is found that, in the Barro (1990) model, Pareto...