Should CBA’s include a correction for the marginal excess burden of taxation?
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JEL classification:
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
- H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-PBE-2018-04-23 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2018-04-23 (Public Finance)
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