Pareto-improving tax policies under hyperbolic discounting

This paper investigates the welfare implications of tax policies in the economy with present-biased consumers. We show that consumption taxes, income subsidies, or capital subsidies can improve not only hyperbolically discounted intertemporal utilities, but also exponentially discounted commitment u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kang, Minwook
Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/151368