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作者：Showalter, MH; Thurston, NK
摘要：We use the 1983-1985 Physicians' Practice Costs and Income Survey, supplemented with federal and state tax rates, to estimate the effect of variation in marginal tax rates on work hours for high-income physicians. We find that self-employed physicians are much more sensitive to the marginal tax rate than would be suggested by previous labor-supply studies, while those who are employees have no discernible sensitivity to marginal tax rates. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science S.A.
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作者：Jehiel, P
摘要：This paper considers the problem of bargaining between benevolent jurisdictions about local public goods and head taxes. It is shown that delegation to benevolent jurisdictions will, in general, induce distortions away from efficiency, where efficiency means an efficient provision of local public goods and an efficient distribution of consumers. This distortion is caused by (1) the divergence between social and jurisdictional objectives, and (2) the impossibility for jurisdictions to realize s...
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作者：Nyberg, S
摘要：The social level of honesty is a public good that determines the feasibility of ventures subject to opportunism and the amount of resources devoted to safeguarding such activities. This paper examines equilibrium honesty in an evolutionary model where safeguards exhibit diminishing returns. The analysis shows that honesty-promoting policies, such as public provision and subsidization of safeguards, financed by uniform taxes, increase social welfare. By contrast, sharply increased safeguard cos...
