Browsing by Subject "H21"

Now showing items 1-4 of 4

Optimal taxation, social contract and the four worlds of welfare capitalism

Bargain, Olivier ; Spadaro, Amedeo (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2008-07)

Drawing from the formal setting of the optimal tax theory (Mirrlees 1971), the paper identifies the level of Rawlsianism of some European social planner starting from the observation of the real data and redistribution ...
Smoking intensity, compensatory behavior and tobacco tax policy

Irvine, Ian (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-08-06)

Smokers not only choose the number of cigarettes to smoke in any given period on the basis of price, they also choose the intensity with which to smoke - that is, how much nicotine to inhale. The possibility that ...
Tax-benefit revealed redistributive preferences over time : Ireland 1987-2005

Bargain, Olivier ; Keane, Claire (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)

By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach ...
A theory of child targeting

Bargain, Olivier ; Donni, Olivier (University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2007-03)

There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical foundation to ground the debate on the optimality of the different instruments. In the present paper, ...