Optimal tax policy in the presence of productive, consumption, and leisure externalities

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2017
Volume: 152
Issue: C
Pages: 62-65

Authors (2)

Escobar-Posada, Rolando A. (not in RePEc) Monteiro, Goncalo (State University of New York-B...)

Score contribution per author:

0.503 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

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.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:152:y:2017:i:c:p:62-65
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-25