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Optimal commodity grouping in a partial equilibrium framework

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  • Pascal Belan

    (EUREQUA - Equipe Universitaire de Recherche en Economie Quantitative - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LEN - Laboratoire d'économie de Nantes - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes)

  • Stéphane Gauthier

    (CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CREST-INSEE - Centre de Recherche en Economie et en Statistique - Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE))

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This note characterizes, in a partial equilibrium economy with a single agent, which commodities should be taxed whenever there is only one available tax rate. We show that commodities with low price elasticities should be imposed; luxuries are eventually exempted.

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  • Pascal Belan & Stéphane Gauthier, 2004. "Optimal commodity grouping in a partial equilibrium framework," Post-Print halshs-00106895, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00106895
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2003.09.026
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