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, marginal and intra-marginal taxation, and the level of government consumption. Conventional accounting measures of "taxes …
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This paper develops a perfect foresight general equilibrium simulation model of life cycle savings that may be used to investigate the potential impact of a wide range of government policies on national savings and economic welfare. The model can provide quantitative answers to a number of...
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levels by increasing taxes, so either an adjustment to fiscal spending or monetary policy must occur to stabilize debt. We …
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--government spending and changes in tax policy--and map the news processes into standard DSGE models. We identify news concerning taxes …
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econometrician's information sets in estimated VARs. Economically meaningful shocks to taxes, therefore, cannot be extracted from …
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combination of a drop in total factor productivity (TFP) during 1990-92 and of increases in taxes on labor and consumption and …
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income, corporate income, payroll, and estate and gift taxes with a 23 percent effective retail sales tax plus a progressive … rebate. The 23 percent rate generates more revenue than the taxes it replaces, but the rebate's cost necessitates scaling … here, current effective marginal labor taxes are higher or much higher than 23 percent. Take our stylized 45 year …
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An asset-pricing perspective on inflation reveals that it depends on current and expected monetary and fiscal policies. There are three ways to carry $1 today into the future: money, bonds, and real assets. That dollar's purchasing power varies inversely with the price level. Expected money...
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In comparing Canada with the U.S., we first simulate the U.S. demographic transition, treating the U.S. as a closed economy. The time path of interest rates obtained from the U.S. simulations are then used in the Canadian simulations. In the Canada simulations, Canada is assumed to be an open...
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Notwithstanding its widespread use as a measure of fiscal policy, the government deficit is not a well-defined concept from the perspective of neoclassical macro economics. From the neoclassical perspective the deficit is an arbitrary accounting construct whose value depends on how the...
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