Welfare dominance : an application to commodity taxation (English)

The paper suggests a method which enables the user to identify commodities that all individuals who can agree on certain weak assumptions with regard to the social welfare function will agree upon as worth subsidizing or taxing in the absence of efficiency considerations. The method is based on an extension of the stochastic dominance criteria and it is illustrated using data from Israel.

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Slemrod, Joel;

Yitzhaki,Shlomo;
Document Date
1987/04/30
Document Type
Departmental Working Paper
Report Number
DRD269
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Disclosure Date
2012/02/13
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Disclosed
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Welfare dominance : an application to commodity taxation
Keywords
social welfare function

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Slemrod, Joel; Yitzhaki,Shlomo.

Welfare dominance : an application to commodity taxation (English). Development Research Department discussion paper ; no. DRD 269 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/534021467988913141

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