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The redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger
Hounsa, Thierry; Coulibaly, Mohamed; Sanoh, Aly - 2019
This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing in Mali (by 2.4 percentage points) and Niger (2.5 percentage points). This is a result of primarily two factors: indirect taxes (value-added taxes and import duties) and direct...
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Growth effects of fiscal policies : a comparative analysis in a multi-country context
Brons, Martijn; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Nijkamp, Peter - 1999
from various countries). Despitethe wide variety of potentialtheoretical relationships between government expenditures …, taxation and growth,most empirical analyses arerestricted to simple linear regressions of growth on some measure of …
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Unexpected consequences of Ricardian expectations
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2013
government spending, a change in taxation does not alter the set of feasible life-time consumption plans of the households and …
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The forgotten unit of income, expenditure and wealth chain : remembering the taxation of wealth and our fight against inequality
Esener, Selçuk Çağrı - In: Smaller world, bigger issues : growth, unemployment, …, (pp. 279-294). 2019
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Tax cuts starve the beast! : evidence from Germany
Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2019
The 'starving the beast' hypothesis claims that tax cuts lead to lower public spending, rather than higher debt levels and higher taxes in the future. This paper uses the institutional setting of German fiscal federalism to its advantage in order to explore how fiscal policy reacts to exogenous...
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The near term growth impact of the tax cuts and jobs act
Mertens, Karel - 2018
of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on US GDP growth. Applying recent reduced form estimates of tax multipliers with the … projected revenue impact of the Act yields a level of GDP that is predicted to be 1.3% higher by 2020, with most of the growth … a similar GDP increase by 2020, but with stronger growth in 2018 and a partial reversal in the following years …
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The effects of tax changes on economic activity : a narrative approach to frequent anticipations
García-Uribe, Sandra - 2018
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Demystifying a 'shining example' : German public finances under the debt break
Eicker-Wolf, Kai; Truger, Achim - 2014
German fiscal policy is nowadays often presented as a shining example due to successful budget consolidation after the Great Recession. However, the idea that the German success is the result of a well-thought-out economic strategy that could therefore serve as a role model for other countries...
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Unexpected consequences of Ricardian expectations : Erratum
Schlicht, Ekkehard - 2013
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What is driving wealth inequality in the United States of America? : the role of productivity, taxation and skills
Ernst, Ekkehard; Langot, François; Merola, Rossana; … - 2024
-biased technological change, decreasing progressiveness of taxation and productivity slowdown - we show that the decline in productivity …
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