 Yet Another Reason to Tax GoodsNo 188, 2006 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics Abstract: An important finding of the new dynamic public finance literature is the validity of Atkinson and Stiglitz' uniform commodity tax prescription in a dynamic Mirrleesian setting. However, this need not apply to the taxation of goods across time, i.e., the taxation of savings. We model an overlapping generations economy where, following the new dynamic public finance literature, we assume that information regarding agents' productivities is private and changes through time, but depart from the rest of the literature in assuming that the government does not have full control of agents' savings. Optimal commodity taxes are shown to depend on off-equilibrium savings, thus overturning Atkinson and Stiglitz' result. With regards to the taxation of savings, the inverse Euler equation found in the literature becomes here a positive marginal tax rate prescription Keywords: Optimal Taxation; Non-observable savings; Multi-period agency (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:red:sed006:188 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in 2006 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics Society for Economic Dynamics Marina Azzimonti Department of Economics Stonybrook University 10 Nicolls Road Stonybrook NY 11790 USA. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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