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Optimal Fiscal Policy and Government Provision of Contingent Liabilities : The Example of Government Loan and Deposit Guarantees

International Monetary Fund - 1989

sector’s loan portfolio to eliminate risk, full government guarantee of private sector loans (or deposits) is suboptimal. The …

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Saving-Investment Correlations : Immobile Capital. Government Policy or Endogenous Behavior?

International Monetary Fund - 1989

This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over time. It is concluded that the main reason for the observed high correlations over the recent period is probably government policy

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Fiscal Policy and Private Sector Saving Behavior : Tests of Ricardian Equivalence in Some Developing Economies

International Monetary Fund - 1987

Tax or debt financing of a given rate of government expenditures would, according to the now well-known Ricardian Equivalence proposition, have equivalent effects on aggregate demand. Among the reasons for a deviation from the equivalence is the possibility that the government and the private...

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Neglected Heterogeneity and Dynamics in Cross-Country Savings Regressions

International Monetary Fund - 1999

This paper examines the extent to which conclusions of cross-country studies of private savings are robust to allowing … for the possible heterogeneity of savings behavior across countries and the inclusion of dynamics. It shows that … neglecting heterogeneity and dynamics can lead to misleading inferences about the key determinants of savings behavior. The …

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Model Uncertainty. Learning, and the Gains from Coordination

International Monetary Fund - 1988

The paper considers gains from international economic policy coordination when there is uncertainty concerning the functioning of the world economy, but also learning about the “true” model on the part of policymakers. The paper reports estimates of plausible alternative versions of a...

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Integrating a Unified Revenue Administration for Tax and Social Contribution Collections : Experiences of Central and Eastern European Countries

International Monetary Fund - 2004

During the 1990s, a failure to collect social contributions in Central and Eastern European countries deprived pension schemes of resources needed to meet their obligations. Based on these countries'' experience, this paper examines the trend to increase coordination of tax and contribution...

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Spend Now, Pay Later? : Tax Smoothing and Fiscal Sustainability in South Asia

International Monetary Fund - 1999

This paper tests a version of Barro’s tax-smoothing model, which assumes intertemporal optimization by a government seeking to minimize the distortionary costs of taxation, using Pakistan and Sri Lankan data for 1956-95 and 1964-97, respectively. The empirical results indicate that...

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The Relative Impact of Income and Consumption Taxes

International Monetary Fund - 1988

This paper examines the possibility of ascertaining the welfare changes that occur when a consumption tax replaces an equal-yield income tax. It finds that those with saving/income ratios greater than the social saving/income ratio under the income tax will surely benefit and those with ratios...

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Possible Implications of Integrating the Corporate and Individual Income Taxes in the United States

International Monetary Fund - 1990

The classical corporate profits tax in the United States involves non-neutralities between: different sources of financing; different forms of business organization; and retaining or distributing earnings and may result in the U.S. investor being at a disadvantage vis-à-vis foreign investors....

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Tax Policy and National Savings in the United States: A Survey

International Monetary Fund - 1988

This paper explores how tax policy affects the level and allocation of national savings in the United States. It argues … composition of savings and investment. The paper suggests various specific tax measures that would not only raise government … revenue but also enhance the efficiency of savings and investment …

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