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Public Good Provision and the Comparative Statics of Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxation
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-06)
Comparative static properties of the solution to an optimal nonlinear income tax problem are provided for a model in which the government both designs an income tax schedule for redistributive purposes and provides a public ...
Optimim Tariffs and Retaliation: How Country Numbers Matter
(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
This paper identifies a new terms-of-trade externality that is exercised through tariff setting. A North-South model of international trade is introduced in which the number of countries in each region can be varied. As ...
Optimum Tariffs and Retaliation: How Country Numbers Matter
(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
This paper presents a North-South model of international trade in which (i) there is a relatively small number of countries in the North and (ii) the North is relatively abundant in capital while the South is relatively ...