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Veblens Theory of the Leisure Class Revisited: Implications for Optimal Income Taxation
(2010-08)
Almost all previous studies on public policy under relative consumption concerns have ignored the role of leisure for status comparisons. Inspired by Veblen (1899), this paper considers a two-type optimal income tax model, ...
Paternalism against Veblen: Optimal Taxation and Non-Respected Preferences for Social Comparisons
(2014-11)
This paper deals with optimal income taxation and relative consumption under a welfarist government that fully respects people’s preferences and a paternalist government that does not share the consumer preference for ...
When Samuelson met Veblen abroad: National and global public good provision when social comparisons matter
(2012-09)
This paper derives Pareto efficient policy rules for the provision of national as well as global public goods in a two-country world, where each individual cares about relative consumption within as well as between countries. ...
Keeping up with the Joneses, the Smiths and the Tanakas: On International Tax Coordination and Social Comparisons
(2015-05)
Much evidence suggests that between-country social comparisons have become more important over time due to globalization. This paper analyzes optimal income taxation in a multi-country economy, where consumers derive utility ...
State-Variable Public Goods and Social Comparisons over Time
(2013-02)
The optimal provision of a state-variable public good, where the global climate is the prime example, is analyzed in a model where people care about their relative consumption. We consider both keeping-up-with-the-Joneses ...
POSITIONAL PREFERENCES IN TIME AND SPACE: IMPLICATIONS FOR OPTIMAL INCOME TAXATION
(2010-01-22)
This paper concerns optimal nonlinear taxation in an OLG model with two ability-types, where people care about their own consumption relative to (i) other people’s current consumption, (ii) own past consumption, and (iii) ...
Publicly Provided Private Goods and Optimal Taxation when Consumers Have Positional Preferences
(2013-03)
This paper analyzes optimal differential commodity taxation, together with optimal nonlinear income taxation, in order to deal with positional preferences. It also derives the optimal public provision of private goods both ...