Similar Search Results

A Framework for Assessing Estate and Gift Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - 2000

Whether and how estates and gifts should be taxed has long been a controversial subject, and the approach to estate and gift taxation varies among developed countries. Arguments for and against various forms of transfer taxation have focused on concerns about the distribution of income and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470975

Horizontal Equity : New Measures, Unclear Principles

Kaplow, Louis - 2000

Alan Auerbach and Kevin Hassett offer a new measure of horizontal equity (HE) that is designed to overcome deficiencies in prior indexes. There is, however, a fundamental problem that their effort shares with their predecessors' attempts: the underlying rationale for pursuing HE at the expense...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471118

The Fallacy of the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level

Buiter, Willem H. - 1999

or unsound argument'. The 'fiscal theory of the price level', recently re-developed by Woodford, Cochrane, Sims and … proponents of the fiscal theory of the price level do not accept the fundamental proposition that the government's intertemporal …. Policy conclusions could be drawn from the fiscal theory of the price level that would be harmful if they influenced the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471482

Liquidity Traps : How to Avoid Them and How to Escape Them

Buiter, Willem H. - 1999

The paper considers ways of avoiding a liquidity trap and ways of getting out of one. Unless lower short nominal interest rates are associated with significantly lower interest volatility, a lower average rate of inflation, which will be associated with lower expected nominal interest rates,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471545

Any Non-Individualistic Social Welfare Function Violates the Pareto Principle

Kaplow, Louis - 1999

The public at large, many policymakers, and some economists hold views of social welfare that attach some importance to factors other than individuals' utilities. This note shows that any such non-individualistic notion of social welfare conflicts with the Pareto principle

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471750

Transfer Motives and Tax Policy

Kaplow, Louis - 1999

This paper considers the optimal tax treatment of voluntary transfers to individuals in a" framework that integrates redistributive income taxation and estate and gift taxation. Under this" formulation, redistributive considerations become secondary. The optimal tax treatment of" transfers...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471814

Economic Analysis of Law

Kaplow, Louis - 1999

This is a survey of the field of economic analysis of law, focusing on the work of economists. The survey covers the three central areas of civil law liability for accidents (tort law), property law, and contracts as well as the litigation process and public enforcement of law

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471847

Fiscal Prerequisites for a Viable Managed Exchange Rate Regime : A Non-technical Eclectic Introduction

Buiter, Willem H. - 1986

borrowing. There is not yet any "deep structural" theory justifying the (exogenous) lower bounds on the stock of foreign … exchange reserves characteristic of the collapsing exchange rate literature. Absent such a theory of "international liquidity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477028

Death, Population Growth, Productivity Growth and Debt Neutrality

Buiter, Willem H. - 1986

Debt neutrality is said to occur if, given a program for public spending on current goods and services over time, the real equilibrium of the economy (private consumption, investment, relative prices, etc.) is independent of the pattern of government borrowing and lump-sum taxation over time....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477043

Structural and Stabilization Aspects of Fiscal and Financial Policy in the Dependent Economy

Buiter, Willem H. - 1986

The paper considers the response of a small, open dependent economy to a variety of fiscal and financial shocks as well as the influence of alternative budget balancing rules on the response of the system to such external shocks as a change in the world interest rate. The approach allows for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477047

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last