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Taxation, Incomplete Markets, and Social Security (Munich Lectures) | 
| Author: Peter A. Diamond
Publisher: The MIT Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1662803
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 180
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0262541823
Dewey Decimal Number: 330.126
EAN: 9780262541824
ASIN: 0262541823
Publication Date: March 1, 2005
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Winner of the 2003 Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security presented by the TIAA-CREF Institute
In this book, Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information, he uses a variety of simple models to illuminate the economic forces that bear on specific social security policy issues. The focus is on the degree of progressivity desirable in social security and the design of incentives to delay retirement beyond the earliest age of eligibility for benefits. Before analyzing these models, Diamond presents introductions to optimal income tax theory and the theory of incomplete markets. He incorporates recent theoretical developments such as time-inconsistent preferences into his analyses and shows that distorting taxes and a measure of progressivity in benefits are desirable. Diamond also discusses social security reform, with a focus on Germany.
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