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Incentives and Redistribution in the Welfare State

The Swedish Tax Reform

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Jonas Agell

    1. Uppsala University, Sweden

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  2. Peter Englund

    1. Uppsala University, Sweden

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  3. Jan Södersten

    1. Uppsala University, Sweden

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jonas Agell, Peter Englund, Jan Södersten
    Pages 1-23

  3. Tax Planning

    • Jonas Agell, Peter Englund, Jan Södersten
    Pages 24-38

  4. Savings and Consumption

    • Jonas Agell, Peter Englund, Jan Södersten
    Pages 39-71

  5. The Corporate Response

    • Jonas Agell, Peter Englund, Jan Södersten
    Pages 72-105

  6. The Supply of Labour

    • Jonas Agell, Peter Englund, Jan Södersten
    Pages 106-139

  7. Stabilization and Tax Revenue

    • Jonas Agell, Peter Englund, Jan Södersten
    Pages 140-161

  8. Income Distribution

    • Jonas Agell, Peter Englund, Jan Södersten
    Pages 162-189

  9. Efficiency

    • Jonas Agell, Peter Englund, Jan Södersten
    Pages 190-216

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 217-247
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About this book

This book reviews the lessons from the Swedish 1991 tax reform, the most far-reaching tax reform in any Western industrialized country in the post-war period. The authors discuss a range of behavioural responses (including tax planning, savings, labour supply, investment, etc.), and assess the overall effects on efficiency and equity. They also draw lessons for tax reform more generally. The book should be of interest to anyone with an interest in tax policy and tax reform evaluation.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Uppsala University, Sweden

    Jonas Agell, Peter Englund, Jan Södersten

About the authors

JONAS AGELL is Professor of Economics at Uppsala University. He was previously a research fellow at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University after completing his doctoral research at Uppsala University. His research interests are public economics and macroeconomics and he has published articles in these areas in many journals including the American Economic Review, Economica, the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review and the Journal of Public Economics. He is the author of Does Debt Management Matter? (with B. Friedman and M. Persson).

PETER ENGLUND is Professor of Economics at Uppsala University. He earned a doctoral degree in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics and was then a research fellow at the Institute for International Economic Studies, University of Stockholm. His research deals with housing markets, taxation and monetary issues and has been published in the Journal of Public Economics, the European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Economica and other journals.

JAN SÖDERSTEN is Professor of Economics at Uppsala University. He was previously a research associate at the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research, Stockholm after completing his doctoral research at Uppsala University. His research is in the field of public economics. He has published in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, the Journal of Public Economics and FinanzArchiv. He is the co-author of The Taxation of Income from Capital (with M.A. King and D. Fullerton).

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