Date: 2012
Type: Article
Competitive nonlinear taxation and constitutional choice
American Economic Journal : Microeconomics, 2012, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 142-175
MORELLI, Massimo, YANG, Huanxing, YE, Lixin, Competitive nonlinear taxation and constitutional choice, American Economic Journal : Microeconomics, 2012, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 142-175
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In an economy where agents have different productivities and mobility, we compare a unified nonlinear optimal taxation with the equilibrium taxation that would be chosen by two competing tax authorities if the same economy were divided into two states. The overall level of progressivity and redistribution is unambiguously lower under competitive taxation; the “rich” are always in favor of competing authorities, whereas the “poor” are always in favor of unified taxation; the preferences of the middle class depend on the initial conditions in terms of the distribution of abilities, the relative power of the various classes, and mobility costs.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/30727
Full-text via DOI: 10.1257/mic.4.1.142
ISSN: 1945-7715; 1945-7707
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/13666
Version: Published version of EUI ECO WP 2010/14
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