Voting under temptation

Monisankar Bishnu and Min Wang

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 118, issue 3, 419-423

Abstract: Within the confines of linear tax and complete market, we show that the efficiency force for a negative capital tax may not be strong enough to reverse the politico-economic force for a positive redistributive taxation under temptation and self-control preferences.

Keywords: Consumption; Saving; Temptation; Self-control; Tax; Voting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 E21 E60 H20 H30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.12.014

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