On the (Ir)Relevance of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion to Government Policy
By Louis Kaplow. 2004
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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions
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- Automobile Externalities and Policies (2007, background): “11 In contrast, Louis Kaplow (2005) finds that the optimal environmental tax equals the Pigouvian tax for “distribution neutral” tax shifts in heterogeneous agent models; this result stems from his assumptions that the taxed commodity is an average leisure substitute and that all external costs…”
- Pigou Meets Mirrlees: On the Irrelevance of Tax Distortions for the Second-Best Pigouvian Tax (2015, methodology): “By adopting the private 4Kaplow (2006) is related to the arguments provided in Kaplow (1996), Kaplow (2004), Laroque (2005) and Gauthier and Laroque (2009), who analyze distortionary taxation and optimal public goods provision (rather than externalities). marginal value of income as an…”
- The Policy Elasticity (2016, methodology): “As mentioned, the definition of the MVPF is based on welfare measures of Mayshar (1990) and Slemrod and Yitzhaki (1996, 2001); Kleven and Kreiner (2006). However, it differs from the canonical definition of the marginal cost of public funds.”
- Environmental investment and policy with distortionary taxes, and endogenous growth (2008, unknown): “As pointed out by Kaplow [20], government could also acquire lump sum revenue in a representative agent model simply by reducing the amount of the transfer.”
- On the Undesirability of Commodity Taxation Even When Income Taxation is Not Optimal (2006, unknown): “On the Undesirability of Commodity Taxation Even When Income Taxation Is Not Optimal Louis Kaplow © 2004.”