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growth enhancing tax and expenditure reform. We quantitatively illustrate that this reform based strategy, by reaping … yet avoids increasing tax rates. With slow consolidation, marginal tax rates are reduced right from the beginning. …
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We study the effect of tax policy on stock market returns in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom using … GARCH models and a unique daily dataset of legislative tax changes during the period 1 December 1978 to 31 January 2018. We … find that days of discretionary tax legislation during all stages of the process often matter for returns, both in terms of …
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In recent times, Africa has experienced remarkable economic growth; nonetheless, this advancement remains far from being considered inclusive, given the persistently high levels of poverty and income inequality across the continent. To this end, this study investigates the role of fiscal policy...
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We characterize the second-best allocation in a Mirrleesian optimal tax model where agents differ in multiple … dimensions and the planner can tax multiple goods non-linearly. We develop a new method that allows us to solve the partial … properties of the optimum. First, the optimal tax system is described by a multidimensional version of Diamond’s (1998) and Saez …
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This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An … example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations … tax system. However, this tax system is often undesirable since it severely restricts the choice space of agents in the …
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expectations, a structural labor demand model, and a tax-benefit microsimulation model. Our findings show that as of September 2020 …. However, the tax benefit system and discretionary policy responses to the crisis act as important income stabilizers, since …
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-level approach. We combine a microsimulation model with labour market transition techniques to simulate the COVID-19 shock on the …
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from approximately 0.7 in 1997 to under 0.3 in 2019. We further demonstrate how a simulation procedure based on the labor … the sociodemographic composition of the population, changes in preferences and labor market options, wage changes, and tax …
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the development in effective marginal tax rates and participation tax rates, and estimates, using the difference …-in-differences method, the impact of tax incentives on employment rates of elderly workers. After this background, we ponder possibilities … for reforming the Swedish tax system to improve its labour market impacts. We suggest better targeting the earned income …
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There is often a gap between the prescriptions of an optimal tax system and actual tax systems, some of which can be … reviews the political economics literature on tax systems and reforms to see whether political mechanisms allow us to better … understand why tax systems look the way they look. Finally, we exploit a database of reforms in labour taxation in the European …
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