Authors:

  • Emmanuel Farhi

Excerpt

Insurance and Taxation over the Life Cycle. Emmanuel Farhi, August 2012, Paper. "We consider a dynamic Mirrlees economy in a life-cycle context and study the optimal insurance arrangement. Individual productivity evolves as a Markov process and is private information. We use a first-order approach in discrete and continuous time and obtain novel theoretical and numerical results. Our main contribution is a formula describing the dynamics for the labour-income tax rate. When productivity is an AR(1) our formula resembles an AR(1) with a trend where: (i) the auto-regressive coefficient equals that of productivity..." Link verified August 21, 2014