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Intergenerational policy and the measurement of tax incidence

Conesa, Juan Carlos; Garriga, Carlos - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2013

Policymakers often use measures of tax incidence (generational accounts) as criteria for policy selection. We use a quantitative model of optimal intergenerational policy to evaluate the ability of the tax incidence metric to capture the identity of recipients and contributors and the magnitudes...

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Generational policy and the macroeconomic measurement of tax incidence

Conesa, Juan Carlos; Garriga, Carlos - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2009

In this paper we show that the generational accounting framework used in macroeconomics to measure tax incidence can, in some cases, yield inaccurate measurements of the tax burden across age cohorts. This result is very important for policy evaluation, because it shows that the selection of tax...

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Indirect taxation and the welfare effects of altruism on the optimal fiscal policy

Garriga, Carlos; Sánchez-Losada, Fernando - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2009

links present and future generations in the economy. We show that these altruistic links provide a new role for indirect … channel is not present in economies without altruism, such as the infinite-lived consumer economy or the overlapping … generations economy, where long-run welfare is suboptimal and indirect taxation is irrelevant. …

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Optimal taxation with imperfect competition and aggregate returns to specialization

Coto-Martínez, Javier; Garriga, Carlos; … - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2007

In this paper we explore the proposition that in economies with imperfect competitive markets the optimal capital income tax is negative and the optimal tax on firms profits is confiscatory. We show that if the total factor productivity as well as the measure of firms or varieties are endogenous...

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Optimal fiscal policy in the design of Social Security reforms

Conesa, Juan Carlos; Garriga, Carlos - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2007

The quantitative macroeconomics literature has documented that in the basic Overlapping Generations model a privatization of the social security system, going from a Pay-As-You-Go to a Fully Funded system, generates large long run welfare gains at the cost of substantial welfare losses for...

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Demographics, redistribution, and optimal inflation

Bullard, James; Garriga, Carlos; Waller, Christopher J. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2012

May 30, 2012. "Demographics, Redistribution, and Optimal Inflation," with Carlos Garriga and Christopher J. Waller. Presented by Christopher Waller at the 2012 BOJ-IMES Conference Demographic Changes and Macroeconomic Performance.

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Mortgages and monetary policy

Garriga, Carlos; Kydland, Finn E.; Šustek, Roman - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2013

Mortgage loans are a striking example of a persistent nominal rigidity. As a result, under incomplete markets, monetary policy affects decisions through the cost of new mortgage borrowing and the value of payments on outstanding debt. Observed debt levels and payment to income ratios suggest the...

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