Optimal taxation, critical-level utilitarianism and economic growth

Luca Spataro and Thomas Renstroem ()
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Thomas Renstroem: Durham Business School

No 2010_06, Department of Economics Working Papers from Durham University, Department of Economics

Abstract: In this work we analyze the issue of taxation in an intertemporal economy with endogenous fertility under critical-level utilitarianism, both from a positive and normative standpoint. On the positive side we analyse the effects of a change in the tax on capital income and on the population size, both separately and in a policy aiming at maintaining per-capita debt constant. On the normative side, we characterize the first-best and second- best optimal tax structures both when labour supply is exogenous and endogenous.

Keywords: Taxation; endogenous fertility; critical level utilitarianism; population. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 H21 J13 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-01-01
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