The Optimal Taxation of Business Owners
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Optimal taxation; moral hazard; optimal contracting; human capital;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2019-12-02 (Business Economics)
- NEP-ENT-2019-12-02 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-PBE-2019-12-02 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2019-12-02 (Public Finance)
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