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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 ...
Optimal Taxation and Other-Regarding Preferences
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-10)
The present paper analyzes optimal redistributive income taxation in a Mirrleesian framework extended with other-regarding preferences at the individual level. We start by developing a general model where the other-regarding ...
How Much Liberty Should We Have? Citizens versus Experts on Regulating Externalities and Internalities
(University of Gothenburg, 2024-01)
Based on a tailor-made survey, we find that experts – academics and civil servants – are much more willing than citizens in Sweden to accept liberty-reducing regulations. Moreover, both citizens and experts are more ...