Optimal Taxation When Consumers Have Endogenous Benchmark Levels of Consumption

By Andrew B. Abel. 2003

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/243b98d0f51b9040ff0a96f7f8918818c687a0d7

Citations in the corpus

Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, unknown): “…asset pricing (Abel, 1990; Campbell and Cochrane, 1999; Galı́, 1994), Pareto optimality (Collard, 1975; Shall, 1972), the theory of optimal taxation (Abel, 2005; Aronsson and Johansson-Stenman, 2008; Boskin and Sheshinki, 1978; Dupor and Liu, 2003; Ljungqvist and Uhlig, 2000), the determination…”
Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications (2006, unknown): “Abel (2005) focuses on this issue in an overlapping two-generation model with a utility function for the new-born of the form: (1 )(1 ) (1 ) (1 )(1 ) (1 ) 1 1 1( ) * ( / ) ( ) * ( / ) 1 1 t t t t t t t c c c c c c U η α η α η α η β α α − − − − − − + + += + − − % α% (13) where is own current…”
Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective (2012, unknown): “In this paper we propose a new functional form to represent interdependence of preferences over income distributions, that is, an individual’s preferences that depend jointly on the entire distribution of income, and use data from Germany over the period 1990 to 2004 to test its validity.”
When the Joneses’ consumption hurts : Optimal public good provision and nonlinear income taxation (2008, unknown): “Earlier literature dealing with public policy and relative consumption (or income) addresses a variety of issues such as income tax policy (Boskin and Sheshinski, 1978; Blomquist, 1993; Persson, 1995; Ireland, 2001), public good provision (Ng, 1987), social insurance (Abel, 2005), growth (Corneo and”
Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles (2008, unknown): “The difficulty in solving such coordination problems in endogenous growth models has to date appeared unsurpassable (Ljungqvist and Uhlig, 2000, and Abel, 2005, simply assume that α >1).”