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S E I IZA DP No. 8369 R E S R E P A Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy P N Jeffrey Carpenter O Peter Hans Matthews I S Benjamin Tabb S U C S I August 2014 D Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy Jeffrey Carpenter Middlebury College and IZA Peter Hans Matthews Middlebury College Benjamin Tabb Middlebury College Discussion Paper No. 8369 August 2014 IZA P.O. Box 7240 53072 Bonn Germany Phone: +49-228-3894-0 Fax: +49-228-3894-180 E-mail: iza@iza.org Any opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. The IZA research network is committed to the IZA Guiding Principles of Research Integrity. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a