Autori
Gottardi, Piero
KAJII, Atsushi
NAKAJIMA, Tomoyuki

Titolo
Optimal taxation and debt with uninsurable risks to human capital accumulation
Periodico
European University Institute of Badia Fiesolana (Fi). Department of Economics - Working papers
Anno: 2014 - Fascicolo: 8 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 30

We consider an economy where individuals face uninsurable risks to their human capital accumulation, and study the problem of determining the optimal level of linear taxes on capital and labor income together with the optimal path of the debt level. We show both analytically and numerically that in the presence of such risks it is bene cial to tax both labor and capital income and to have positive government debt.




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