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    • Redistribution with labor markets frictions 

      Costa, Carlos Eugênio da; Maestri, Lucas Jóver; Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos
      2017
      How does the presence of labor market frictions change optimal redistributive policies? Embedding an otherwise standard Mirrlees’ (1971) economy in a directed search environment we show that optimal Utilitarian (and Rawlsian) ...
    • Taxation of couples: a mirrleesian approach for non-unitary households 

      Costa, Carlos Eugênio da; Lima, Lucas Alves Estevam de
      2016-07-02
      Optimal tax theory in the Mirrlees’ (1971) tradition implicitly relies on the assumption that all agents are single or that couples may be treated as individuals, despite accumulating evidence against this view of household ...