Optimal Taxation with Private Insurance
推导了存在私人保险时的完全非线性最优所得税公式,理论上和量化上填补了私人市场结构(包括不完全市场模型)下最优税收研究的空白。
Abstract We derive a fully non-linear optimal income tax schedule in the presence of private insurance. We fill the gap in the literature by studying the optimal tax formula with a comprehensive structure of the private markets—including incomplete markets models—both theoretically and quantitatively. As in the standard taxation literature without private insurance, the optimal tax formula can still be expressed in terms of standard sufficient statistics. With private insurance, however, the formula involves additional terms that reflect how the private market interacts with public insurance. For example, the optimal tax formula should also consider asset distribution and pecuniary externalities as well as the welfare effects of borrowing constraints.