[组织经济学Seminar]Indirect Taxation, Market Power and Social Efficiency
发文时间:2011-09-14

中国人民大学企业与组织研究中心
组织经济学Seminar

【2011F01】

组织经济学(Organizational Economics)Seminar由中国人民大学企业与组织研究中心(CFOS)主办。CFOS的宗旨是,利用现代经济学方法研究中国的企业、政府、市场和非营利组织的重大问题,推动企业理论、契约理论和制

度经济学的研究与教学。

时间:2011年9月15日(周四)12:00-13:30
地点:明德主楼621会议室
主持:聂辉华
主讲:汪浩
主题:Indirect Taxation, Market Power and Social Efficiency

摘要:This paper revisits the old topic of optimal indirect taxation. Consider an economy where all commodities are taxable. Tax revenue is viewed as the “rent” of governmental coercion power, and gross profit as the “rent” of market power. A government maximizes consumer surplus conditional on raising certain tax revenue and gross profit. I first characterize the social optimal resource allocation where a planner makes decisions for the government and consumers. Then I show that the government can realize the social optimal outcome through an indirect tax structure. The optimal tax structure should equalize the after-tax Lerner indexes of all commodities. I also show that the optimal tax structure generally results in welfare gain rather than deadweight loss when labor supply is sufficiently inelastic.


作者简介:汪浩,俄亥俄州立大学经济学博士,北京大学中国经济学研究中心教授。他的研究领域为产业组织理论、企业竞争战略、反垄断与政府规制,他在International Journal of Industrial Organization、Marketing Science、Management Science等著名学术期刊上发表论文多篇,他也是国内著名期刊《经济学季刊》的副主编。


中国人民大学经济学院
人大企业与组织研究中心
2011年9月13日