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Public Good Provision and the Comparative Statics of Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxation
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-06)
Comparative static properties of the solution to an optimal nonlinear income tax problem are provided for a model in which the government both designs an income tax schedule for redistributive purposes and provides a public ...
Strategy-Proofness and the Tops-Only Property
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-04)
A social choice function satisfies the tops-only property if the chosen alternative only depends on each person's report of his most-preferred alternatives on the range of this function. On many domains, strategy-proofness ...
Efficient Strategy-Proof Exchangeand Minimum Consumption Guarantees
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
For exchange economies with classical economic preferences, it is shown that any strategy-proof social choice function that selects Pareto optimal outcomes cannot guarantee everyone a consumption bundle bounded away from ...
Financing Education Using Optimal Redistributive Taxation
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
In this article, the joint use of an income tax and public provision of education as instruments to achieve the government's distributional objectives are considered. Individuals differ in innate labour productivity and ...
Shadow Prices for a Nonconvex Public Technology in the Presence of Private Constant Returns
(Vanderbilt University, 2005)
Diamond and Mirrlees have shown that public sector shadow prices should be set equal to the private producer prices in some circumstances even if taxes are not optimal when the public production technology is convex and ...
Strategic Nonlinear Income Tax Competition with Perfect Labor Mobility
(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
The Nash equilibria of a tax-setting game between two governments who can set nonlinear income tax schedules for a perfectly mobile workforce whose members differ in unobserved skill levels are examined. Each government ...
A Unified Approach to Strategy-Proofness for Single-Peaked Preferences
(Vanderbilt University, 2011)
This article establishes versions of Moulin's [On strategy-proofness and single peakedness, Public Choice 35 (1980), 31-38] characterizations of various classes of strategy-proof social choice functions when the domain ...
Dominance Criteria for Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism
(Vanderbilt University, 2007)
Social welfare dominance criteria based on critical-level generalized utilitarian social welfare functions are investigated. An analogue of a generalized Lorenz curve called a generalized concentration curve is introduced. ...
The Impact of Changing Skill Levels on Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxes
(Vanderbilt University, 2007)
The impact of changing an individual's skill level on the solution to a finite population version of the Mirrlees optimal nonlinear income tax problem with quasilinear-in-leisure preferences is investigated. It is shown ...
Social Choice: Recent Developments
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Abstract: In the past quarter century, there has been a dramatic shift of focus in social choice theory, with structured sets of alternatives and restricted domains of the sort encountered in economic problems coming to ...