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The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and takes into account transitional dynamics. Currently, for calculating corporate taxable income US firms are allowed to deduct...
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sector activities (public consumption and social security expenses) by general (wage) taxation in an economy which becomes … labour income. Since financing of social security via general taxation involves a negative externality the effects of … financed by general taxation. …
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Several contributions have recently assessed the size of fiscal multipliers both in RBC models and New Keynesian models. None of the studies considers a model with frictional labour markets which is a crucial element, particularly at times in which much of the fiscal stimulus has been directed...
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We examine whether democratic societies can escape poverty traps. Unrestricted agenda setting with simple majority rules fail to educate a society, because education-enhancing redistribution will not occur. We show that a combination of suitable constitutional rules overcomes this impossibility...
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hand, were among the first to be introduced when modern systems of taxation were developed at the end of the nineteenth … determination of the dynamic political equilibrium of the model. Its effect is to compress bequest taxation but also to delay its … the long-term evolution of bequest taxation in modern democracies and with the drastic discrepancies currently observed …
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This paper examines the role of public education in the context of parental migration, and it studies the effects of an expansive income tax policy that is adopted to increase public education expenditure per pupil. It is shown that such a policy may exacerbate income inequality in the long run...
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introduce either taxation or rationing. Each treatment is subjected to two conditions: the burden of the deficit is either …-riding. Individualized taxation brings the voluntary contributions closer to the optimum while uniform rationing appears to be the worst …
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of workers faced with progressive taxation under tournaments and piece rates. Because of the difficulty identifying any … sensitive, and conclude with a tentative evaluation of the welfare benefits of progressive taxation in tournament economies. …
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redistributive taxation. In a formal model of redistribution with international migration and fiscal competition we derive the main … combining them with OECD taxation data, we find robust evidence suggesting that a) higher patriotism is associated with higher …
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We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....
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