Feasible Implementation of Taxation Methods

Oscar Volij, Nir Dagan () and Roberto Serrano ()

Staff General Research Papers from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper studies implementation of taxation methods in one-commodity environments in which the incomes of the agents are unknown to the planner. Feasibility out of equilibrium imposes that the mechanism depend on the environment. We present two mechanisms. The first one, which requires complete information, implements every taxation method in Nash, strong and coalition-proof equilibrium. The second, where informational requirements are relaxed, implements a large class of consistent and monotone methods in subgame perfect equilibrium. Neither mechanism employs the off-equilibrium devices used by the general theory. Under fully private information no method is implementable.

Date: 2002-03-01

Published in Review of Economic Design, 1999, Vol. 4, pp. 57-72.

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Working Paper: Feasible Implementation of Taxation Methods (1995)
Working Paper: Feasible Implementation of Taxation Methods (1999)
Journal Article: Feasible implementation of taxation methods (1999)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:isu:genres:5246

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Staff General Research Papers from Iowa State University, Department of Economics
Address: Iowa State University, Dept. of Economics, 260 Heady Hall, Ames, IA 50011-1070
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Stephanie Bridges ().