Born, Benjamin; Peter, Alexandra; Pfeifer, Johannes - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 37 (2013) 12, pp. 2582-2601
This paper analyzes the contribution of anticipated capital and labor tax shocks to business cycle volatility in an … frequencies, this mostly derives from anticipated government spending shocks. Tax shocks, both anticipated and unanticipated …, contribute little to the fluctuations of real variables. However, anticipated capital tax shocks do explain a sizable part of …