Equilibrium Tax Rates under Ex-ante Heterogeneity and Income-dependent Voting

Bo Hyun Chang; Yongsung Chang; Sun Bin Kim

doi:10.1515/bejm-2020-0274

Equilibrium Tax Rates under Ex-ante Heterogeneity and Income-dependent Voting

Bo Hyun Chang, Yongsung Chang, Sun Bin Kim

Department of Economics

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Abstract

The standard models with incomplete markets (e.g. Aiyagari) have difficulty justifying the current income tax rates as an optimal or political equilibrium outcome. Given the highly skewed income distribution, the majority of the population would be in favor of raising taxes to a much higher level. We show that incorporating (i) the ex-ante heterogeneity of earnings and (ii) income-dependent voting behavior helps us to reconcile the large gap between the model and data.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	547-573
Number of pages	27
Journal	B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
Volume	22
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2020-0274
Publication status	Published - 2022 Jun 1

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We would like to thank Arpad Abraham and two anonymous referees for helpful comments. This work is supported by grants from the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Korean government (NRF-2016S1A5A2A03926178).

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