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    Optimal Tax Rules for Addictive Consumption
    (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2011) Bossi, Luca; Calcott, Paul; Petkov, Vladimir
    This paper studies implementation of the social optimum in a model of habit formation. We consider taxes that address inefficiencies due to negative consumption externalities, imperfect competition, and self-control problems. Our contributions are to: i) account for producers’ market power; and ii) require implementation to be robust and time consistent. Together, these features can imply significantly lower taxes. We provide a general characterization of the optimal tax rule and illustrate it with two examples.