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Optimal taxation with capital accumulation and wage bargaining

Palokangas, Tapio - 2003

This study examines optimal taxation in a unionized economy in which households save capital. The main findings are as follows. Judd?s (1985) and Chamley?s (1986) classical results of zero taxation on capital income holds. This is true independently of workers? savings behaviour or the...

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Welfare Analysis in a Schumpeterian Growth Model with Capital

Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok; Reinthaler, Volker - 2001

In this note we compare the laissez-faire steady-state solution in the Howitt and Aghion (1998) model to the social optimum. The analysis offers several new insights in comparison to the welfare analysis in Aghion and Howitt (1992). We find various new distortions between private and optimal...

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Unemployment invariance

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

well. By implication, policies that stimulate investment and R&D and policies that affect the size of the labor force may …

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Efficient tax policy ranks education higher than saving

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2008

Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient not to distort the choice of education. In general this implies distorting the saving decision. Hence a strict order of policy priority is derived. Efficient tax policy...

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The impact of education on the subjective discount rate in Ugandan villages

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009

Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...

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Rebalancing growth in Asia

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2009

growth. Investment growth has dominated GDP growth in China during this decade but is also important in the cases of India … and Vietnam. To examine the global implications of domestic growth patterns in Asia, I analyze saving-investment balances … region. In terms of sheer magnitudes, China's national savings and current account surpluses dominate the region's saving-investment …

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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions

Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009

There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...

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Unemployment, Growth and Fiscal Policy : New Insights on the Hysteresis Hypothesis

Sorolla, Valeri; Sala, Héctor; Raurich, Xavier - 2004

We develop a growth model with unemployment due to imperfections in the labor market. In this model, wage inertia and balanced budget rules cause a complementarity between capital and employment capable of explaining the existence of multiple equilibrium paths. Hysteresis is viewed as the result...

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