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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
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Strayer University
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5. Consider the one-period economy we discussed in the class. The representative consumer has utility function  The representative firm has technology given byÂ
. The government finances G with proportional social security taxes tSSÂ paid by the firm.
(a) Define a Competitive Equilibrium for this economy.
(b) Find the conditions that characterize the CE.
(c) Compare your results with the case of a proportional tax t on labor income that we discussed in the class. Under what conditions do they lead to the same allocation? What does that imply with regard to the consumer’s utility? What are the implications for tax incidence?
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