The paper presents theoretical considerations and empirical evidence to test the validity of the Laffer in Narrower Sense (LINS) curve as a parabola with a maximum. Attention is focused on the so-called legal-effective tax gap (letg). The econometric application is based on statistical data...

In a maximally simplified scheme, the economy is an immense network of interacting entities (individuals, households, firms, institutions, regions, countries, international unions), reducible in the last instance to an, again, huge graph of transactions (in the largest sense). Well known couples...

The paper is consacrated to the binomial “public budget-global output” from the BARS curve perspective. The first section characterizes the main conceptual premises of this approach. The second is devoted to empirical analysis, using the statistical data (1990- 2013) for Romania, an European...