Are user fees really regressive?

Arbeitspapier

This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of introducing user fees for publicly provided excludable public goods into a model with consumption and income taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in earnings and second-best policy is chosen by a Ramsey government. Our main result is that the adoption of user fees by the Ramsey government not only increases aggregate efficiency, but it also decreases inequality. This result is in contrast to common view and policy practice.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 3875

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Publicly Provided Goods: General ; Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General ; Welfare Economics: General
• Thema: user fees ; Ramsey taxation ; efficiency ; inequality ; Gebühr ; Öffentliches Gut ; Ramsey-Preis ; Optimale Besteuerung ; Wirtschaftliche Effizienz ; Verteilungswirkung ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Economides, George ; Philippopoulos, Apostolis
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (wo): Munich
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/61048
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ