On limiting the market for status signals
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In this paper, the impacts of tax policy and benefits on the signalling equilibrium are considered, and the benefits of a Pareto-improving tax policy are discussed. But the authors do not consider the impact of tax on the signaling equilibrium.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 1994-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 265 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tax policy & Inefficiency.read more
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On the desirability of taxing
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop a model that allows for public goods and status signaling through charitable contributions, and they use this setup to re-examine the conventional practice of rendering a favorable tax treatment to charitable contributions.
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The impact of globalization and contemporary technological paradigms on the image dilution related to nichemanship: an example of Porsche in Bulgaria
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Optimal taxation with positional considerations
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ABSTRACT Conspicuous Consumption in the United States and China
TL;DR: This paper developed a model of conspicuous consumption to empirically measure the importance of peer beliefs to Americans and Chinese, and used the estimated model to evaluate the welfare effect of the 1990-2002 American luxury tax on automobiles.
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