On the Desirability of Taxing Capital Income to Reduce Moral Hazard in Social Insurance
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optimal capital taxation; risk; Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem;All these keywords.
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- D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
- H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
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