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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Chamley-Judd: Capital Taxation<br />

Judd (1985) and Chamley (1986) give a different argument against<br />

capital taxation<br />

Consider a Ramsey model where govt. is limited to linear<br />

distortionary taxes<br />

Result: optimal capital tax converges to zero in long run<br />

Intuition: DWL rises with square of tax rate<br />

With non-zero capital tax, have an infinite price distortion between c 0<br />

and c t as t → ∞<br />

Undesirable to have such large distortions on some margins<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 4: Optimal Taxation 88 / 121

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