Analyzing the Impact of Indirect Tax Reforms on Rank Dependant Social Welfare Functions: A Positional Dominance Approach

Paul Makdissi () and Stéphane Mussard

Cahiers de recherche from Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke

Abstract: A new approach is developed to identify thorough marginal tax reforms for pairs of commodities and to test for the robustness of their impacts on Yaari's dual social welfare functions. S-concentration curves are provided for every order of positional dominance and an illustration is performed using Canadian data.

Keywords: Dual Social Welfare Function; Stochastic Dominance; Tax Reform. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H20 I30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2006
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Journal Article: Analyzing the impact of indirect tax reforms on rank-dependent social welfare functions: a positional dominance approach (2008)
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