Panageas' "Optimal taxation in the presence of bailouts" provides a model where labor income taxation is used to finance bailouts and bailouts are always optimal. Labor income taxes are countercyclical: they are lower in economic downturns to alleviate the stress on the financial sector and...

Among economic reforms implemented for overcoming of world financial and economic recessions the special accent is brought to macroeconomic stabilization; strengthening of financial sphere is recognized one of imperatives of economic policy and considerable precondition of its ensuring includes...

The termination of a representative financial firm due to excessive leverage may lead to substantial bankruptcy costs. A government in the tradition of Ramsey (1927) may be inclined to provide transfers to the firm so as to prevent its liquidation and the associated deadweight costs. It is shown...

As a public policy goal, moderation of financial instability has gained some prominence in the face of the current credit contraction. Not surprisingly perhaps, the role of tax policy in exacerbating instances of financial instability has begun to receive some attention in the tax-policy...

While tax policies did not cause the recent global financial crisis, they almost certainly contributed to key vulnerabilities in the international financial system. In this paper we review existing tax policies identifying a number of channels by which tax distortions increase an economy's...

The termination of a representative financial firm due to excessive leverage may lead to substantial bankruptcy costs. A government in the tradition of Ramsey (1927) may be inclined to provide transfers to the firm so as to prevent its liquidation and the associated deadweight costs. It is shown...