Eren Gürer

E-mail

egurer@metu.edu.tr

Department

Department of Economics

Is there a Green Dividend of National Redistribution? Gürer, Eren; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. (2023-01-01) CO2 emissions are disproportionately caused by more affluent consumers. In the political debate, this fact has triggered the demand for income redistribution and wealth taxes not only to reduce inequality but also to reduc...
Rising markups and optimal redistributive taxation Gürer, Eren (2022-10-01) This study explores the implications of rising markups for optimal Mirrleesian income and profit taxation. Using a stylized model with two individuals, the main forces shaping welfare-optimal policies are analytically char...
Pro-rich Inflation and Optimal Income Taxation Gürer, Eren; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. (2021-11-01) We study the implications of an increase in the price of necessities, which disproportionally hurts the poor, for optimal income taxation. When the government is utilitarian and disutility from labor supply is linear, the ...
Equity-efficiency implications of a European tax and transfer system Gürer, Eren (2021-8-01) This study simulates three income tax scenarios in a Mirrleesian setting for 24 EU countries using data from the 2014 Structure of Earnings Survey. In scenario 1, each country individually maximizes its own welfare (benchm...
Pro-rich inflation in Europe: Implications for the measurement of inequality Gürer, Eren; Weichenrieder, Alfons (2020-04-01) This paper studies the distributional consequences of a systematic variation in expenditure shares and prices. Using European Union Household Budget Surveys and Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices data, we construct househ...

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