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Charity, Status, and Optimal Taxation: Welfarist and Paternalist Approaches
(2019-04)
This paper deals with tax policy responses to charitable giving, defined in terms of voluntary contributions to a public good, to which the government also contributes through public revenue; the set of tax instruments ...
Charity, Status, and Optimal Taxation: Welfarist and Non-Welfarist Approaches
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-06)
This paper analyzes optimal taxation of charitable giving to a public good in a Mirrleesian framework with social comparisons. Leisure separability together with zero transaction costs of giving imply that charitable giving ...
Redistribution through Charity and Optimal Taxation when People are Concerned with Social Status
(2016-01)
This paper deals with tax policy responses to charitable giving based on a model of optimal
redistributive income taxation. The major contribution is the simultaneous treatment of (i)
warm-glow and stigma effects of ...
Charity as Income Redistribution: A Model with Optimal Taxation, Status, and Social Stigma
(2019-09)
Our framework integrates (i) public and private redistribution, (ii) the warm glow of giving and stigma of receiving charitable donations, and (iii) status concerns emanating from social comparisons with respect to charitable ...