Optimal Tax Progressivity: An Analytical Framework*

DOI10.1093/QJE/QJX018zbMath1400.91347OpenAlexW1564926856MaRDI QIDQ4963095

Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten, Giovanni L. Violante

Publication date: 6 November 2018

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/64023

zbMATH Keywords

equilibrium modeloptimal tax progressivitytransfer system progressivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroeconomic theory (monetary models, models of taxation) (91B64)

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