Arbeitspapier
Optimal Income Taxation and Public Good Provision in a Two-Class Economy
This paper combines the problem of optimal income taxation with the free-rider problem in public good provision. There are two groups of individuals with private information on their earning ability and their valuation of a public good. Adjustments of the transfer system are needed to discourage the more productive from exaggerating the desirability of public good provision. Similarly, the less productive need to be prevented from understating their valuation. Relative to an optimal income tax, which focuses solely on earning ability, income transfers are increased whenever a public good is installed and are decreased otherwise.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper ; No. 97
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Public Goods
- Thema
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Income Taxation
Public Good Provision
Revelation of Preferences
Two-dimensional Heterogeneity
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bierbrauer, Felix
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY)
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München
- (wann)
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2006
- DOI
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doi:10.5282/ubm/epub.13454
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-13454-1
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bierbrauer, Felix
- Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY)
Entstanden
- 2006