Blar i Working papers (SNF) på forfatter "Schroyen, Fred"
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An alternative way to model merit good arguments
Schroyen, Fred (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-11)Besley (1988) uses a scaling approach to model merit good arguments in commodity tax policy. In this paper, I question this approach on the grounds that it produces wrong recommendations-taxation (subsidisation) of merit ... -
Marginal indirect tax reform analysis with merit good arguments and environmental concerns : Norway, 1999
Schroyen, Fred; Aasness, Jørgen (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-04)We present a framework to identify and evaluate marginal tax reforms when merit good arguments and environmental concerns are given explicit consideration. It is applied to the Norwegian indirect tax system for 1999. The ... -
Markets for public and private health care : redistribution arguments for a mixed system
Marchand, Maurice; Schroyen, Fred (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-04)Should health care provision be public, private, or both? We look at this question in a setting where people differ in their earnings capacity and express an inelastic demand for health care. We assume that illness reduces ... -
Operational expressions for the marginal cost of indirect taxation when merit arguments matter
Schroyen, Fred (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-02)Marginal indirect tax reform analysis evaluates for each commodity (group) the marginal welfare cost (MC) of increasing government revenue by one Euro by raising the indirect tax rate on that commodity. In this paper, I ... -
The values of relative risk aversion and prudence : a context-free interpretation
Eeckhoudt, Louis; Etner, Johanna; Schroyen, Fred (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-02)In this paper we apply to multiplicative lotteries the idea of preference for “harm disaggregation” that was used for additive lotteries in order to interpret the signs of successive derivatives of a utility function. In ...