Capital Taxation: Quantitative Explorations of the Inverse Euler Equation

Economies with private information provide a rationale for capital taxation. In this paper we ask what the welfare gains from following this prescription are. We develop a method to answer this question in standard general equilibrium models with idiosyncratic uncertainty and incomplete markets. We...

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Main Authors: Farhi, Emmanuel (Author), Werning, Ivan (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press, The, 2013-12-09T13:08:06Z.
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