Taxation, Incomplete Markets, and Social Security: The 2000 Munich Lectures (Munich Lectures in Economics Series) - Hardcover

Diamond, Peter A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262042134 ISBN 13: 9780262042130

Verlag: MIT Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Peter Diamond is John and Jennie S. McDonald Professor of Economics at MIT. He received the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262042134
• ISBN 13: 9780262042130
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
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