Direct or indirect tax instruments for redistribution: short-run versus long-run

E Saez - Journal of public economics, 2004 - Elsevier
Optimal tax theory has shown that, under simple assumptions, indirect taxation such as
production subsidies, tariffs, or differentiated commodity taxation, are sub-optimal and that …

Optimal domestic regulation under asymmetric information and international trade: a simple general equilibrium approach

D Martimort, T Verdier - The RAND Journal of Economics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the design of domestic incentive regulations in a small economy opened to
trade and its implications for international specialization and for trade openness to remain …