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On optimal lifetime redistribution policy
(Tampereen yliopisto, 2007)
- workingPaper
Abstract: In this paper we examine various aspects of the optimal lifetime redistribution policy within a cohort. We characterise optimal redistribution policy when society consists of individuals who do not differ only ...
Optimal Formation of Cities: Policy Considerations
(2007)
- workingPaper
Club theoretic analysis of migration between profoundly asymmetric cities shows that centralizedpolicy intervention is necessary to ensure efficient allocation of people between cities. Quantity rationingand equalizing ...
Housing Policy and Redistribution
(Tampereen yliopisto, 2007)
- workingPaper
The potential redistributive role of the housing subsidies has got a relatively little attention in the literature. However, non-linear housing subsidy schemes are commonly used by many countries. We consider the question ...
Efficiency of Local Policy Programmes under Free Migration
(2007)
- workingPaper
A Neo-Keynesian macroeconomic model is constructed to examine the efficiency of a local tax-transfer programme under free migration. An application of the Adaptive Expectations Hypothesis is used todescribe people’s ...
Effects of Fiscal Policy under Free Factor Migration
(2007)
- workingPaper
The effects of fiscal policy are examined in a neo-Keynesian macroeconomic model under perfect factor mobility. The key finding is that, even in the classical regime of the model, fiscal policy may have real effects: a ...
Economic Poverty in Finland 1971 - 2004
(2007)
- workingPaper
We have examined trends in the economic poverty in Finland using two data sources, the IDS (Income Distribution Survey) and the CES (Consumption Expenditure Survey). We have drawn on the recent literature on poverty analysis ...
Welfare State and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Public Health Care
(Tampereen yliopisto, 2007)
- workingPaper
We examine the link between the welfare state and citizens’life satisfaction by using evidence from public health care services. By combining local level data on public health care, and individual level data on life ...
The Political Economy of Sin Taxes
(2007)
- workingPaper
We analyse the determination of taxes on harmful goods when consumers have self-control problems. We show that under mild conditions, the socially optimal tax rate exceeds the average distortion caused by self-control ...
Paternalism and tax competition
(2007)
- workingPaper
When consumers make mistakes, the government may wish to use paternalistic taxation as a corrective measure. We examine a country whose government attempts to use taxation to reduce the consumption of a harmful good, and ...
Prevention of an Entrepreneur's Income Shifting in a Nordic Dual Tax
(2007)
- workingPaper
Nordic dual taxes earned income at a progressive rate schedule while income from capital at a proportional rate. In the Finnish system transformation of taxable income from labour to income from capital is prevented by ...