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OPTIMALLY UNIFORM COMMODITY TAXES IN A NON LINEAR DEMOGRAPHIC DEMAND MODEL
Author(s) -
Ray Ranjan
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
bulletin of economic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.227
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8586
pISSN - 0307-3378
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8586.1988.tb00267.x
Subject(s) - commodity , equivalence (formal languages) , economics , subsidy , yield (engineering) , microeconomics , econometrics , mathematical economics , mathematics , finance , market economy , materials science , metallurgy , discrete mathematics
This paper derives a sufficient condition for optimally uniform commodity taxes within the demographically generalized RNLF'S demand functional form framework. This paper, besides admitting child subsidies, allows for non linear equivalence scales and demographically varying utility and demand functions. The derived condition is shown to yield some recent uniformity results as special cases.