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Marginal income taxes may have an insurance effect by decreasing the effective fluctuations of after-tax individual …
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optimal level of education subsidies along with the optimal progressive schedule of the labour income tax and optimal capital … actually observed tax codes and level of education subsidies suggest that a large part of education subsidies can be justified …
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We analyze the impact of micro-founded political institutions on economic growth in an overlapping-generations economy, where individuals differ in preferences over a public good (as well as in age). Labour and capital taxes finance the public good and a public input. The benchmark institution...
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We develop a general equilibrium model that jointly considers the influence of capital accumulation constraints and of labour market frictions on the process of transition. We endogenize the economic and budgetary costs of different government policies and show that, early in transition,...
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This paper presents evidence of profit shifting in response to differences in corporate tax rates for a large selection … of OECD countries. In our estimates we control for the effects of tax rate changes on real activity. Our baseline … estimates suggest that, on average, a unilateral increase in the corporate tax rate does not lead to an increase in corporate …
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of such a tatonment process for a government that wants to optimally set taxes given a tax code with a fixed number of … economic policy, ie the greater the number of tax brackets. It is also typically stronger, the greater the interaction of …. Finally, for a given economy and a given tax code, I define the latter’s average performance as the average value of the …
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This Paper explores the effects of a menu of inter-generational fiscal policies (public debt financed by taxes, PAYG social security system and inheritance taxation) in an overlapping generations model with perfect altruism. It generalizes the model by Barro (1974) by introducing...
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Income redistribution often takes highly inefficient forms, such as employment in the bureaucracy. We argue that this arises as an optimal political strategy in situations where politicians cannot commit to policies. Political exchanges between politicians and voters must be self-enforcing and...
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In thinking about policy, academic economists alternate between theoretical models in which governments can design finely-tuned optimal interventions and practical considerations which usually assume the government to be incompetent and hostage to special interests. I argue in this paper that...
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This paper analyses policy centralization outcomes in a two-jurisdiction model of public good provision choices with heterogeneous policy preferences and inter-jurisdictional policy spillovers under two alternative political procedures: direct referendum and representative democracy. We show...
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