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The Ramsey approach to optimal taxation and Ramsey tax rules have amassed substance in economic theory. However, they are often criticized on grounds of practicality, fairness, feasibility and some other aspects of designing actual tax policy. This paper presents a collection of these views; it...
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Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e., the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...
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The paper discusses the applicability of optimal taxation theory to source-based capital incomes when significant tax evasion is observed. Without tax evasion a modified Ramsey Rule may reduce distortions brought by international capital mobility, leading to levying differentiated tax rates in...
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reactiveness of inflation to the unemployment rate. In regard to a monetary union, the national unemployment multiplier in the …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on ?frictional growth,? describing the … expectations, there is a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our empirical analysis suggests that this Phillips curve may be … reasonably flat. We show that the persistence of inflation and unemployment, in response to monetary policy shocks, is related to …
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This paper examines the presence of asymmetric behavior in exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) to CPI inflation in 12 …
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This paper explores the links between gradual capital account liberalization and the exchange rate regime in Morocco where the process of economic and financial openness is relatively advanced. Using a game theory model with two economic agents, that are monetary authorities and domestic firms,...
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domestic currency, increases interest rates, effectively controls inflation rates and reduces output. They do not find any …
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This study investigates the relationship between inflation, inflation uncertainty and output in Tunisia using real and … nominal data. GARCH-in-mean model with lagged variance equation is employed for the analysis. The result shows that inflation … uncertainty has a positive and significant effect on the level of inflation only in the real term. Moreover, inflation uncertainty …
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This paper studies the effect of exchange rate pass-through on inflation in Tunisia over the period 2001-2009. The … authors' objective is to track inflation regimes for the Tunisian economy and to forecast its determinants. Using a Markov …-switching approach, the authors identified two main regimes for inflation in Tunisia over this period: a low and stable inflation regime …
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