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  • 21 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 21, 2010

continued collaboration. Building a Better America—One Wealth Quintile at a Time Authors:Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely Publication:Perspectives on Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Disagreements about the optimal level of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

in a new paper, Why Do We Redistribute So Much but Tag So Little? The Principle of Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation. The fundamental challenge, he writes, is that "different people find different criteria compelling, and most people... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

communities, and make our cities smarter. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-141.pdf The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution Authors:N. Gregory... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

and Josh Lerner Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-099.pdf Why Do We Redistribute So Much but Tag So Little? The Principle of Equal Sacrifice and Optimal View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Nov 2016
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Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

corporate tax strategies is not as obvious as it may seem. Costs and benefits are vastly different for individuals than they are for large corporations. “If you optimize taxes in your personal life, it is not visible to outsiders, so it’s... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

stocking decision, our model is generalizable to other types of capacity investment decisions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-105.pdf Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources Authors:Alexander Gelber and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract Empirical research suggests that parents' economic resources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model predicts an inverted-U relationship between taxation and growth, with corruption reducing the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

Diversity, Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation Author:Matthew Weinzierl Abstract The workhorse model of optimal taxation strongly recommends... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to be economically substantial and the optimal rule to not entail a countercyclical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

public finance, but it has been largely set aside in the modern theoretical approach to optimal income taxation, where welfarist objectives dominate. A prerequisite for that gap to close is the clarification of what benefit-based income... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16645 Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Mikhail Golosov, Maxim Troshkin, Aleh Tsyvinski, and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

firm-level, and that recording back-up solutions is most valuable at medium levels of environmental change. Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice Authors:N. Gregory Mankiw, Matthew C. Weinzierl, and Danny... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

Redistribute So Much but Tag So Little? The Principle of Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation Author:Matthew Weinzierl Abstract Tagging is a free lunch in conventional optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

frictions play a first-order role in determining market prices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49425 Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-Based View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 10

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-104.pdf Stretching the Inelastic Rubber: Taxation, Welfare and Lobbies in Amazonia, 1870-1910 Author:Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract This paper examines the effect of government intervention via View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

issues relating to fostering innovation. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Kerr_Kerr_Lincoln_WP14_IPEFirms.pdf Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew Abstract—This paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

at the individual level. We discuss the implications of our results for the study of learning as well as for providers and consumers of outsourced services. Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

cross-sectional empirical evidence is most persuasive in favor of agency considerations. Studies centered on the May 2003 dividend tax cut confirm that differences in the taxation of dividends and capital gains have only a second-order... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

Acceptance of Morally Arbitrary Luck and Widespread Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew C. Abstract—Public moral reasoning is shown to differ in three specific ways from what is conventionally assumed in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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