levels by increasing taxes, so either an adjustment to fiscal spending or monetary policy must occur to stabilize debt. We …

--government spending and changes in tax policy--and map the news processes into standard DSGE models. We identify news concerning taxes …

econometrician's information sets in estimated VARs. Economically meaningful shocks to taxes, therefore, cannot be extracted from …

combination of a drop in total factor productivity (TFP) during 1990-92 and of increases in taxes on labor and consumption and …

We analyze the dynamic macroeconomic effects of border adjustment taxes, both when they are a feature of corporate tax … reform (C-BAT) and for the case of value added taxes (VAT). Our analysis arrives at the following main conclusions. First, C …. Lastly, border taxes increase government revenues in periods of trade deficit, however, given the net foreign asset position …

accounted for by the evolution of taxes in an otherwise standard neoclassical growth model. Although taxes play a crucial role …, we cannot argue that taxes drive all of the movements in hours worked. In particular, the model underpredicts the large …

By preemptive austerity, we mean a policy that increases taxes to deter potential rollover crises. The policy is so … eliminates the danger. Mechanically, high taxes make the safe zone in the model -- the set of sovereign debt levels for which the … reduce the level of debt to a point where, asymptotically, high taxes are no longer necessary …