This paper reviews the literature on optimal taxation of labour income and the empirical work on labour supply and the elasticity of taxable income in Sweden. It also presents an overview of Swedish taxation of labour income, offers calculations on the development in effective marginal tax rates...

This note presents an analysis which generalizes the results reached by Blackburn and Pelloni on the relationship between short-term stabilization policy and long-term growth by considering both deliberate (internal) and serendipitous (external) learning mechanisms for productivity growth