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Non-Leaky Buckets: Optimal Redistributive Taxation and Agency Costs
Economists have generally argued that income redistribution comes at a cost in aggregate incomes. We provide a counter-example in a model where private information gives rise to incentive constraints. In the model, a wage tax creates the usual distortion in labor-leisure choices, but the grants that it finances reduce a distortion in investment in human capital. We prove that simple redistributive policies can yield Pareto improvements and increase aggregate incomes. Where higher education is beyond the reach of the poor, the wage tax- transfer policy is under most circumstances more effective than targeted credit taxes or subsidies in increasing over-all efficiency.
An integrated source of broadband quadrature squeezed light
An integrated silicon nitride resonator is proposed as an ultra-compact
source of bright single-mode quadrature squeezed light at 850 nm. Optical
properties of the device are investigated and tailored through numerical
simulations, with particular attention paid to loss associated with interfacing
the device. An asymmetric double layer stack waveguide geometry with inverse
vertical tapers is proposed for efficient and robust fibre-chip coupling,
yielding a simulated total loss of -0.75 dB/facet. We assess the feasibility of
the device through a full quantum noise analysis and derive the output
squeezing spectrum for intra-cavity pump self-phase modulation. Subject to
standard material loss and detection efficiencies, we find that the device
holds promises for generating substantial quantum noise squeezing over a
bandwidth exceeding 1 GHz. In the low-propagation loss regime, approximately -7
dB squeezing is predicted for a pump power of only 50 mW.Comment: 23 pages, 12 figure
Existence of global strong solutions in critical spaces for barotropic viscous fluids
This paper is dedicated to the study of viscous compressible barotropic
fluids in dimension . We address the question of the global existence
of strong solutions for initial data close from a constant state having
critical Besov regularity. In a first time, this article show the recent
results of \cite{CD} and \cite{CMZ} with a new proof. Our result relies on a
new a priori estimate for the velocity, where we introduce a new structure to
\textit{kill} the coupling between the density and the velocity as in
\cite{H2}. We study so a new variable that we call effective velocity. In a
second time we improve the results of \cite{CD} and \cite{CMZ} by adding some
regularity on the initial data in particular is in . In this
case we obtain global strong solutions for a class of large initial data on the
density and the velocity which in particular improve the results of D. Hoff in
\cite{5H4}. We conclude by generalizing these results for general viscosity
coefficients
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