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. Progressive labor income taxes provide social insurance against idiosyncratic income risk and redistributes after tax income among … policy is indeed characterized by a substantially progressive labor income tax code and a positive subsidy for college … education. Both the degree of tax progressivity and the education subsidy are larger than in the current U.S. status quo. …
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asset markets and heterogeneous agents, where agents vote on the degree of progressivity in the tax-transfer-scheme. The …
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asset markets and heterogeneous agents, where agents vote on the degree of progressivity in the tax.transfer.scheme. The …
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The paper demonstrates how the Estability principle introduced by Evans and Honkapohja can be applied to models with heterogeneous and private information in order to assess the stability of rational expectations equilibria under learning. The paper extends already known stability results for...
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In this paper we analyze how the availability of credit influences the relationship between government size as a proxy for fiscal stabilization policy and the amplitude of business cycle fluctuations in a sample of advanced OECD countries. Interpreting relatively low loan-tovalue ratios as an...
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growth, nonñlinear tax schemes are partly capable of compensating the negative by effects by ex post providing a social …
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The paper demonstrates how the E–stability principle introduced by Evans and Honkapohja [2001] can be applied to models with heterogeneous and private information in order to assess the stability of rational expectations equilibria under learning. The paper extends already known stability...
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In this paper we analyze how the availability of credit in uences the relationship between government size as a proxy for scal stabilization policy and the amplitude of business cycle uctuations in a sample of advanced OECD countries. Interpreting relatively low loan-tovalue ratios as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161055
We develop a macroeconomic model where the government does not guarantee to repay debt. We ask whether movements in the price of government bonds can be rationalized by lenders' unwillingness to fully roll over debt when the outstanding level of debt exceeds the government's repayment capacity....
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