TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimal tax policy in the presence of productive, consumption, and leisure externalities
AU - Escobar-Posada, Rolando A.
AU - Monteiro, Goncalo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017
PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - This paper presents the optimal tax policy in an economy featuring consumption, production, and leisure externalities. This extends prior models that only consider consumption and production externalities. The immediate consequence is labor income should be taxed (subsidized) if the leisure externality is positive (negative). In addition, numerical simulations show that in the presence of positive production externalities, and irrespective of the sign of consumption externalities, an increase in the importance of the leisure externality reduces the distortion generated by consumption and production externalities. This effect is reversed if production externalities are negative.
AB - This paper presents the optimal tax policy in an economy featuring consumption, production, and leisure externalities. This extends prior models that only consider consumption and production externalities. The immediate consequence is labor income should be taxed (subsidized) if the leisure externality is positive (negative). In addition, numerical simulations show that in the presence of positive production externalities, and irrespective of the sign of consumption externalities, an increase in the importance of the leisure externality reduces the distortion generated by consumption and production externalities. This effect is reversed if production externalities are negative.
KW - Capital accumulation
KW - Consumption
KW - Leisure and production externalities
KW - Optimal tax policy
KW - Time non-separable preferences
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U2 - 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.12.033
DO - 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.12.033
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85009083479
SN - 0165-1765
VL - 152
SP - 62
EP - 65
JO - Economics Letters
JF - Economics Letters
ER -