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Optimal taxation with gradual learning of types

Costa, Carlos Eugênio da

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An important feature of life-cycle models is the presence of uncertainty regarding one’s labor income. Yet this issue, long recognized in different areas, has not received enough attention in the optimal taxation literature. This paper is an attempt to fill this gap. We write a simple 3 period model where agents gradually learn their productivities. In a framework akin to Mirrlees’ (1971) static one, we derive properties of optimal tax schedules and show that: i) if preferences are (weakly) separable, uniform taxation of goods is optimal, ii) if they are (strongly) separable capital income is to rate than others forms of investiment.

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Tipo
Estudo
Ano
2003
Instituição
Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV
Idioma
Inglês
Acesso
Não informado
Identificador
oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/843

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