TY - RPRT AU - Koethenbuerger, Marko AU - Poutvaara, Panu TI - Rent Taxation in a Small Open Economy: The Effect on Transitional Generations PY - 2007/Jan/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 2559 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2559 AB - We show that taxation of rents may yield an intergenerational Pareto-improvement in a small open economy provided tax revenues are earmarked to reduce wage taxes. Previous literature has shown that rent taxation benefits current young and future generations, while we show that it also benefits the current old generation when the initially prevailing tax mix is sufficiently skewed towards wage taxation. KW - capitalization KW - transitional dynamics KW - labor supply KW - asset prices KW - rent taxes ER -