Minea, Alexandru; Villieu, Patrick - In: Revue d'économie politique 119 (2009) 4, pp. 653-675
<alinea/> Since the Barro (1990) model, the theoretical literature emphasizes the existence of an inverted-U curve between taxes and economic growth, in the spirit of the ?Laffer curve?. Nevertheless, empirical evidence does not seem to support this result. We show that this dilemma disappears once we...