CESifo Research Network Fellow

Bas Jacobs

VU University Amsterdam
School of Business and Economics
De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Affiliated Research Network Area

Public Economics

Fields of Interest

  • Public Economics
  • Labor Economics
  • Macroeconomics

CESifo Working Papers

Optimal Linear Income Taxation and Education Subsidies under Skill-Biased Technical Change

Bas Jacobs, Uwe Thuemmel
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8805

Optimal Taxation of Capital Income with Heterogeneous Rates of Return

Aart Gerritsen, Bas Jacobs, Alexandra Victoria Rusu, Kevin Spiritus
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8395

Optimal Income Taxation in Unionized Labor Markets

Albert Jan Hummel, Bas Jacobs
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7188

Should Pollution Taxes be Targeted at Income Redistribution?

Bas Jacobs, Rick van der Ploeg
CESifo, Munich, 2017
CESifo Working Paper No. 6599

Redistributive Politics and the Tyranny of the Middle Class

Floris Zoutman, Bas Jacobs, Egbert Jongen
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 5881

Optimal Redistribution and Monitoring of Labor Effort

Floris Zoutman, Bas Jacobs
CESifo, Munich, 2014
CESifo Working Paper No. 4646

Is a Minimum Wage an Appropriate Instrument for Redistribution?

Aart Gerritsen, Bas Jacobs
CESifo, Munich, 2014
CESifo Working Paper No. 4588

Second-Best Income Taxation with Endogenous Human Capital and Borrowing Constraints

Bas Jacobs, Hongyan Yang
CESifo, Munich, 2013
CESifo Working Paper No. 4155

From Optimal Tax Theory to Applied Tax Policy

Bas Jacobs
CESifo, Munich, 2011
CESifo Working Paper No. 4151

Optimal Linear Commodity Taxation under Optimal Non-Linear Income Taxation

Bas Jacobs, Robin Boadway
CESifo, Munich, 2013
CESifo Working Paper No. 4142

Pigou Meets Mirrlees: On the Irrelevance of Tax Distortions for the Second-Best Pigouvian Tax

Bas Jacobs, Ruud A. de Mooij
CESifo, Munich, 2011
CESifo Working Paper No. 3342

The Marginal Cost of Public Funds is One

Bas Jacobs
CESifo, Munich, 2010
CESifo Working Paper No. 3250

On the Desirability of Taxing Capital Income to Reduce Moral Hazard in Social Insurance

Bas Jacobs, Dirk Schindler
CESifo, Munich, 2009
CESifo Working Paper No. 2806

Optimal Taxation of Risky Human Capital

Bas Jacobs, Dirk Schindler, Hongyan Yang
CESifo, Munich, 2009
CESifo Working Paper No. 2529

Is Prescott Right? Welfare State Policies and the Incentives to Work, Learn and Retire

Bas Jacobs
CESifo, Munich, 2008
CESifo Working Paper No. 2277

Optimal Taxation of Human Capital and the Earnings Function

Bas Jacobs, Lans Bovenberg
CESifo, Munich, 2008
CESifo Working Paper No. 2250

Optimal Redistributive Tax and Education Policies in General Equilibrium

Bas Jacobs
CESifo, Munich, 2007
CESifo Working Paper No. 2162

Real Options and Human Capital Investment

Bas Jacobs
CESifo, Munich, 2007
CESifo Working Paper No. 1982

Analyzing a Flat Income Tax in the Netherlands

Ruud A. De Mooij, Bas Jacobs, Kees Folmer
CESifo, Munich, 2007
CESifo Working Paper No. 1890