A Mirrleesian Theory of Ramsey Taxation

Adriano Rampini and Alberto Bisin

No 272, 2008 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: Time inconsistency provides a motivation for linear Ramsey taxation in a Mirrleesian economy. Moreover, such a motivation overturns some classic results from the Ramsey taxation literature; specifically, indirect taxation may neither be useless (i.e., redundant) nor uniform.

Date: 2008
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