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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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. This new study, based on more than 20 million tax records over 10 years, examines the highest income earners in Ireland but … income and pay around 2/3 of all income tax. Unlike other OECD countries, the top 1% has not expanded its gross income share …
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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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the experience of 34 OECD countries over 1980-2014 to assess the effects of changes in the tax structure on the long … while keeping government size constant typically lift long-term output per capita when they involve cuts in the labour tax …-income effects of revenue-neutral reductions in labour tax wedges are broadly in line with intuition: the relative position of those …
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The recent euro area sovereign debt crisis has shown the importance of market reactions for the sustainability of debt. The objective of this paper is to calculate endogenous government debt limits given the markets assessment of the probability to default. The estimated primary balance reaction...
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Fiscal constitutions comprise the set of rules and frameworks guiding fiscal policy that are enshrined in a country’s fundamental laws. This paper compares the fiscal constitutions of 15 federal countries by empirically assessing five building blocks: 1) the power of sub-national governments...
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Since 1995 when OECD began conducting Economic Surveys of the Russian Federation many policy recommendations relating to structural reform and framework conditions have been made. This paper is an update of an earlier paper that described actions taken up to October 2011 (Vaziakova et al.,...
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