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The conventional wisdom in the literature on capital controls and growth argues that capital controls increase the ability of a government to tax capitalists which proves detrimental for growth. To address this issue, we construct an OLG model to study the effect of capital controls on human...
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We construct an overlapping generations model to study the effect of capital controls on human capital investments and the incidence of redistributive politics in a growing economy. We argue that the conventional wisdom linking higher capital controls to lower growth is reproduced only when an...
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optimal income tax policy using theory and calibration. A positive association between life expectancy and income counteracts … the well-known static pattern of declining marginal utility. As a result, the mechanical value of redistribution is … effects of the mechanical value of redistribution dominate, and the optimal marginal tax rates fall by up to 10 percentage …
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fiscal policies that achieve a desired degree of redistribution in society. We find that marginal tax rates on the top 1% of …
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