scholarly journals Optimal Income Taxation, Public-Goods Provision and Public-Sector Pricing: A Contribution to the Foundations of Public Economics

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin F. Hellwig
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Public Economics ◽  
Income Taxation ◽  
Public Goods Provision ◽  
Optimal Income Taxation ◽  
Public Sector Pricing

Optimal Tax and Expenditure Policy with Aggregate Uncertainty

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix J. Bierbrauer
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Income Taxation ◽  
Public Goods Provision ◽  
Optimal Income Taxation ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Aggregate Uncertainty ◽  
Optimal Tax ◽  
The Cross

We study optimal income taxation and public-goods provision under the assumption that the cross-section distributions of productive abilities or public-goods preferences are not known a priori. A conventional Mirrleesian treatment is shown to provoke manipulations of the policy mechanism by individuals with similar interests. The analysis therefore incorporates a requirement of coalition-proofness. The main result is that increased public-goods provision is associated with a more distortionary and a more redistributive tax system. With a conventional Mirrleesian treatment, the level of public-goods provision is not related to how distortionary or redistributive the tax system is. (JEL D82, H21, H23, H41)

Micro-Foundations of Religion and Public Goods Provision: Belief, Belonging, and Giving in Catholicism and Islam

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 718-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramazan Kılınç ◽  
Carolyn M. Warner
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Public Goods Provision ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Micro Foundations

AbstractWhile debates continue about the relationship between state-provided social welfare and religious charities, and whether organized religions are more capable of providing social welfare than is the public sector, less attention has focused on the question of what motivates religious adherents to contribute to the charitable work of their religions. In this article, we examine how adherents of Catholicism and Islam understand their generosity and its relationship to their faith. Through 218 semi-structured interviews with Catholics and Muslims in four cities in France, Ireland, Italy, and Turkey, we find systematic differences between the two religions. Catholics emphasize love of others and Muslims emphasize duty to God. We also find, contrary to expectations of the literature that emphasizes monitoring and sanctioning within groups to obtain cooperation, that Catholics and Muslims see their generosity as also motivated by the positive affect they feel towards their respective communities.

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