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Firouz Gahvari

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics

Leiby Hall Chair and Professor of Economics

313 David Kinley Hall, 1407 West Gregory Drive

Urbana, IL 61801

United States

http://www.economics.illinois.edu/people/fgahvari

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Poschingerstr. 5

Munich, DE-81679

Germany

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Externalities and Optimal Taxation

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Paper No. 19.98
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Nov 1998
Helmuth Cremer, Firouz Gahvari and Norbert Ladoux
University of Toulouse (GREMAQ & IDEI), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics and University of Toulouse 1 - Groupe de Recherche en Economie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ)
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Maybe 'Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother': Uncertain Family Aid and the Design of Social Long Term Care Insurance

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6290
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Feb 2017
Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari
NHH Norwegian School of Economics - Department of Economics, University of Toulouse (GREMAQ & IDEI) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics
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long term care, uncertain altruism, private insurance, public insurance, topping up, opting out

Maybe "Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother": Uncertain Family Aid and the Design of Social Long Term Care Insurance

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10461
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 10 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari
NHH Norwegian School of Economics - Department of Economics, University of Toulouse (GREMAQ & IDEI) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics
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long term care, uncertain altruism, private insurance, public insurance, topping up, opting out

Maybe 'Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother': Uncertain Family Aid and the Design of Social Long Term Care Insurance

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11741
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 09 Jan 2017
Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari
NHH Norwegian School of Economics - Department of Economics, University of Toulouse (GREMAQ & IDEI) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics
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long term care, opting out., private insurance, public insurance, topping up, uncertain altruism

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Fertility, Human Capital Accumulation, and the Pension System

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2736
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 06 Aug 2009
Helmuth Cremer, Firouz Gahvari and Pierre Pestieau
University of Toulouse (GREMAQ & IDEI), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics and University of Liège - Research Center on Public and Population Economics
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pay-as-you-go social security, endogenous fertility, education, endogenous ratio of high to low ability types, three externality sources, education subsidies, child subsidies

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Transfers in Cash and in Kind: Theory Meets the Data

NBER Working Paper No. w13557
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 31 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2022
Janet Currie and Firouz Gahvari
Princeton University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics
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Atkinson-Stiglitz and Ramsey Reconciled: Pareto Efficient Taxation and Pricing Under a Break-Even Constraint

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4248
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 Jun 2013
Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari
University of Toulouse (GREMAQ & IDEI) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics
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Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem, Ramsey, Pareto efficient taxation, break-even constraint

Accidental Bequests: A Curse for the Rich and a Boon for the Poor

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3094
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Jun 2010
Helmuth Cremer, Firouz Gahvari and Pierre Pestieau
University of Toulouse (GREMAQ & IDEI), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics and University of Liège - Research Center on Public and Population Economics
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accidental bequests, estate tax, tagging, first best, second best

Accidental Bequests: A Curse for the Rich and a Boon for the Poor

ECONPUBBLICA Working Paper No. 147
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 04 Mar 2012
Helmuth Cremer, Firouz Gahvari and Pierre Pestieau
University of Toulouse (GREMAQ & IDEI), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics and University of Liège - Research Center on Public and Population Economics
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Friedman Rule in a Model with Endogenous Growth and Gash-in-Advance Constraint

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2708
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 22 Jul 2009
Firouz Gahvari
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics
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Friedman rule, endogenous growth, investment in human capital, overlapping generations, second best

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Pensions with Endogenous and Stochastic Fertility

CORE Discussion Paper No. 2004/67
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Feb 2005
Helmuth Cremer, Firouz Gahvari and Pierre Pestieau
University of Toulouse (GREMAQ & IDEI), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics and University of Liège - Research Center on Public and Population Economics
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Pay-as-you-go social security, endogenous fertility, storage, moral hazard, Samuelson's condition

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Monetary Policy and Redistribution: What Can or Cannot Be Neutralized with Mirrleesian Taxes

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3711
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 26 Jan 2012
Firouz Gahvari and Luca Micheletto
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics and University of Milan
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monetary policy, fiscal policy, redistribution, Friedman rule, heterogeneity, overlapping generations, second best

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Nonlinear Taxation of Income and Education in the Presence of Income-Misreporting

CESifo Working Paper No. 9987
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 Oct 2022
Spencer Bastani, Firouz Gahvari and Luca Micheletto
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics and University of Milan
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optimal taxation, education, human capital, income-misreporting, redistribution

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Welfare Improving Tax Evasion

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13483
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 29 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari
Toulouse Business School, University of Toulouse (GREMAQ & IDEI) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics
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audits, tax evasion, optimal taxation, welfare-improving

Welfare Improving Tax Evasion

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14984
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 28 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2020
Chiara Canta, Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari
Toulouse Business School, University of Toulouse (GREMAQ & IDEI) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics
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audits, optimal taxation, tax evasion, welfare-improving

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Political Competition within and between Parties: An Application to Environmental Policy

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5228
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 24 Oct 2005
Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder and Firouz Gahvari
University of Toulouse (GREMAQ & IDEI), University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics
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Emission taxes, political competition, PUNE, distributional concerns, political compromise

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Pensions with Heterogenous Individuals and Endogenous Fertility

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5553
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 26 Jun 2006
Helmuth Cremer, Firouz Gahvari and Pierre Pestieau
University of Toulouse (GREMAQ & IDEI), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics and University of Liège - Research Center on Public and Population Economics
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Pensions, fertility, adverse selection