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cost of the tax system that underlies the state - tax payer interaction. In this way we develop a channel through which the … determinants (the transaction cost, the tax rates and the debt level). The analysis is carried out in a framework of a monetary …
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particular tax– policy on economic activity and tax revenue. We add an informal sector to the Bank of Greece DSGE model and use … tax rates increased by much more and tax revenue by much less than predicted. The model replicates the official output …
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discipline, the budget deficit as a share of gross domestic product. Drawing from simulation evidence of the German economy, it …
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The sharp rise in debt experienced by most OECD countries raises questions about the prudent debt level countries should target. It also raises questions about the fiscal frameworks needed to reach them and to accommodate cyclical fluctuations along the path towards a prudent debt target. The...
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This paper develops a medium-scale dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium (DSGE) model for fiscal policy simulations. Relative to existing models of this type, our model incorporates a two-country monetary union structure, which makes it well suited to simulate fiscal measures by relatively...
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We present a model of optimal government policy when policy choices may exacerbate socio-political instability (SPI). We show that optimal policy that takes into account SPI transforms a standard concave growth model into a model with both a poverty trap and endogenous growth. The resulting...
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Is it politically feasible for governments to engineer endogenous growth? This paper illustrates two reasonable political decision mechanisms by which fiscal policy generates endogenous growth with a single accumulable factor, under a constant returns to scale production technology, and without...
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-instrumental variables. Tax shocks and government spending shocks that raise the government budget deficit lead to persistent current account … deficits. In particular, the negative response of the current account to exogenous tax reductions through a surge in the demand … current account is amplified when the tax reduction is due to lower personal income taxes and when the government increases …
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We estimate the effect of government spending shocks on the US economy with a time-varying parameter vector autoregression. The recent Great Recession period appears to be characterized by uniquely large impulse responses of output to fiscal shocks. Moreover, the particularity of this period is...
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