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Taxation, incomplete markets, and social security : the 2000 Munich lectures / / Peter A. Diamond



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Autore: Diamond Peter A Visualizza persona
Titolo: Taxation, incomplete markets, and social security : the 2000 Munich lectures / / Peter A. Diamond Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2003
Descrizione fisica: xviii, 160 p
Disciplina: 330.12/6
Soggetto topico: Welfare economics
Welfare state
Taxation
Capitalism
Social security - Finance
Taxation - Germany
Capitalism - Germany
Social security - Germany - Finance
Soggetto non controllato: ECONOMICS/Finance
ECONOMICS/Macroeconomics
ECONOMICS/Political Economy
Note generali: "CES."
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-156) and indexes.
Sommario/riassunto: In this book, Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information, he uses a variety of simple models to illuminate the economic forces that bear on specific social security policy issues. The focus is on the degree of progressivity desirable in social security and the design of incentives to delay retirement beyond the earliest age of eligibility for benefits. Before analyzing these models, Diamond presents introductions to optimal income tax theory and the theory of incomplete markets. He incorporates recent theoretical developments such as time-inconsistent preferences into his analyses and shows that distorting taxes and a measure of progressivity in benefits are desirable. Diamond also discusses social security reform, with a focus on Germany.
Titolo autorizzato: Taxation, incomplete markets, and social security  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-262-27168-0
1-4237-2959-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808145903321
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Serie: Munich lectures in economics.