文章基本信息
- 标题：Merit goods and phantom agents
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- 作者：Bart Capéau ; Erwin Ooghe
- 期刊名称：Economics Bulletin
- 电子版ISSN：1545-2921
- 出版年度：2003
- 卷号：8
- 出版社：Economics Bulletin
- 摘要：Besley (1988) is one of the few exceptional articles containing non-welfarist optimal tax devices. Feehan (1990) reports an error in his first-best rules. The present note argues that Besley's second-best rules optimize the welfare of phantom agents rather than the corrected welfare of real existing agents in society.
- 关键词：merit goods
