A unified framework for optimal taxation with undiversifiable risk

Mostra el registre complet Registre parcial de l'ítem

• dc.contributor.author Panousi, Vasiaca
• dc.contributor.author Reis, Catarinaca
• dc.date.accessioned 2017-09-20T10:57:52Z
• dc.date.available 2017-09-20T10:57:52Z
• dc.date.issued 2017-04
• dc.description.abstract This paper considers a model of linear capital taxation for an economy where capital and labor income are subject to idiosyncratic uninsurable risk. To keep the model tractable, we assume that investment decisions are made before uncertainty is realized, so that the realization of the capital and labor income shocks only affects current consumption. In this setting, we are able to jointly analyze capital and labor income risk and derive analytical results regarding the optimal taxation of capital. We and that the optimal capital tax is positive in the long run if there is only capital income risk. The reason for this is that the capital tax provides insurance against capital income risk. Furthermore, for high levels of risk, increasing the capital tax may actually induce capital accumulation. On the other hand, if there is only labor income risk the optimal capital tax is zero. The sign of the optimal tax can only be negative if the two types of risk are negatively correlated and labor income risk is large enough.ca
• dc.description.sponsorship The ADEMU Working Paper Series is being supported by the European Commission Horizon 2020 European Union funding for Research & Innovation, grant agreement No 649396.
• dc.format.mimetype application/pdfca
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/32771
• dc.language.iso engca
• dc.relation.ispartofseries ADEMU Working Paper Series;64
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/649396
• dc.rights This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properlyattributed.ca
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessca
• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ca
• dc.subject.other Fiscal Policyca
• dc.subject.other Optimal Taxationca
• dc.title A unified framework for optimal taxation with undiversifiable riskca
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperca