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作者:Rios-Rull, Jose-Victor
作者单位:University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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作者:Bohacek, Radim; Kapicka, Marek
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; Czech Academy of Sciences; Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
摘要:We analyze optimal income taxes and optimal schooling subsidies in a dynamic private information economy with observable human capital accumulation. We show that under plausible conditions the marginal schooling subsidies are positive and that they are zero at both endpoints of the skill distribution. We compute the optimal policies and evaluate their impact over the transition and at the steady state. We find that the optimal schooling policies are significantly smaller than the optimal margi...
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作者:Farhi, Emmanuel; Werning, Ivan
作者单位:Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要:This paper derives an intertemporal optimality condition for economies with private information, focusing on a class of recursive preferences. By comparing it to the situation where agents can freely save in a risk-free asset market, we derive the optimal savings distortions necessary for constrained optimality. Our recursive preferences are homogeneous and satisfy a balanced-growth condition, while allowing us to separate the role of risk aversion and intertemporal elasticity of substitution....
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作者:Perri, Fabrizio
作者单位:Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Minneapolis; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; National Bureau of Economic Research
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作者:Albanesi, Stefania
作者单位:National Bureau of Economic Research; Columbia University; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR)
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作者:Abraham, Arpad
作者单位:University of Rochester
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作者:Azzimonti, Marina
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
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作者:Rupert, Peter
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
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作者:Fuster, Luisa; Imrohoroglu, Ayse; Imrohoroglu, Selahattin
作者单位:University of Southern California; University of Toronto
摘要:We compute the welfare effects of different revenue-neutral tax reforms that eliminate capital income taxation in two general equilibrium models calibrated to the U.S. economy. In our dynastic model, the reform with the largest welfare gain is the one that eliminates all income taxation and increases the consumption tax to 35%; 75% of the population alive at the time of the reform benefit from it. Individuals use intervivos transfers and bequests to redistribute the long-run benefits. In a pur...
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作者:Acemoglu, Daron; Golosov, Mikhail; Tsyvinski, Aleh
作者单位:Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要:We provide a simple framework for comparing market allocations with government-regulated allocations. Governments can collect information about individuals' types and enforce transfers across individuals. Markets (without significant government intervention) have to rely on transactions that are ex post beneficial for individuals. Consequently, governments achieve better risk sharing and consumption smoothing than markets. However, politicians in charge of collective decisions can use the cent...