Intergenerational Allocation of Government Expenditures : Externalities and Optimal Taxation

This paper studies optimal capital and labor income taxes when the benefits of public goods are age-dependent. Provided the government can impose a consumption tax, it can attain the first-best resource allocation. This involves the uniform taxation of the cohorts' labor income and a zero capit...

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Main Authors: Iqbal, Kazi, Turnovsky, Stephen J.
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5868