Tax Riots (joint with Christopher Phelan)

Review of Economic Studies, 2008, vol. 75, n.3, pp.649-669.

The code for this project is written for Mathematica.

• Main code, that reproduces the graphs of the numerical example in the paper: eqnsolver052807.nb
• Code for the degenerate case. While the previous file works fine even for a degenerate case, this file contains computations for the case in which the optimal ex ante plan is perturbed on a small-probability event (to check the claim that, in an economy with 1,000,000 people changing what happens on a 1% probability event is well more than needed to obtain that truth telling is strictly interim dominant): degenerate2.nb
• Code that includes a computation of the maximin (it is slightly less general than the main code, since it assumes full support; by default, it is set to use a truncated normal distribution for f, but this can be changed): eqnsolvernormal2.nb
• Code for computing mixed-strategy equilibria when resources seized from tax evaders can be redistributed: redistributing.nb
• Code for the case in which taxes on households that report low income are constrained to be the same (assuming that they are not discovered to be cheaters): taulowthesame.nb
• Code for a CRRA Mirrlees economy with a degenerate distribution f: mirrleesbothworkdegenerate.nb
• Code for a CRRA Mirrlees economy with uniform distribution f: mirrleesbothwork.nb
• Code for a CARA Mirrlees economy with degenerate distribution f: mirrleescarabothworkdegenerate.nb
• Code for a Green economy with a degenerate distribution f: green.nb