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Tax effects, search unemployment, and the choice of educational type
Alstadsæter, Annette; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2005
This paper examines the effect of taxes on the individuals? choices of educational direction, and thus on the economy's skill composition. A proportional labour income tax induces too many workers with high innate ability to choose an educational type with high consumption value and low effort...
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Optimal income taxation with endogenous participation and search unemployment
Lehmann, Etienne; Parmentier, Alexis; van der Linden, Bruno - 2011
We characterize optimal redistributive taxation when individuals are heterogeneous in their skills and their values of non-market activities. Search-matching frictions on the labor markets create unemployment. Wages, labor demand and participation are endogenous. Average tax rates are increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277043
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Reasons for the Demise of Interest : Savings Glut and Secular Stagnation or Central Bank Policy?
Schnabl, Gunther - 2019
for the future (global savings glut). Low growth is linked to slowing population growth and a declining marginal …, from the perspective of Austrian business cycle theory, interest rates were step by step decreased by central banks to … nihilo and the need of time to produce capital invalidates the IS identity assumed in the Keynesian theory to hold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858697
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Uncertainty and Monetary Policy During Extreme Events
Pellegrino, Giovanni - 2020
How damaging are uncertainty shocks during extreme events such as the great recession and the Covid-19 outbreak? Can monetary policy limit output losses in such situations? We use a nonlinear VAR framework to document the large response of real activity to a financial uncertainty shock during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822498
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Market-Based Monetary Policy Uncertainty
Bauer, Michael - 2019
This paper investigates the role of monetary policy uncertainty for the transmission of FOMC actions to financial markets using a novel model-free measure of uncertainty based on derivative prices. We document a systematic pattern in monetary policy uncertainty over the course of the FOMC...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871021
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Uncertainty and Monetary Policy During the Great Recession
Pellegrino, Giovanni; Castelnuovo, Efrem; Caggiano, Giovanni - 2021
We employ a nonlinear VAR framework and a state-of-the-art identification strategy to document the large response of real activity to a financial uncertainty shock during and in the aftermath of the great recession. We replicate this evidence with an estimated DSGE framework featuring a concept...
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Does U.S. Monetary Policy Respond to Macroeconomic Uncertainty?
Gomez, Thomas; Piccillo, Giulia - 2023
We find that macroeconomic uncertainty plays a significant role in U.S. monetary policy. First, we construct a measure of uncertainty as felt by policymakers at the time of making their rate-setting decisions. This measure is derived from a real-time, Bayesian estimation of a small monetary VAR...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357029
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Corporate taxation and the welfare state
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2009
unemployment. Four main results are derived: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion and … the unemployment rate as a measure of labor income risk. The unemployment rate partly reflects the country's exposure to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264567
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Business cycle dynamics of a new Keynesian overlapping generations model with progressive income taxation
Heer, Burkhard; Maußner, Alfred - 2006
In our dynamic optimizing sticky price model, agents are heterogeneous with regard to their age and their productivity. We find that the business cycle dynamics in the OLG model in response to both a technology shock and a monetary shock are similar, but not completely identical to those found...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261430
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Uncertainty and fiscal policy in an asymmetric monetary union
Hefeker, Carsten; Zimmer, Blandine - 2008
The paper examines the monetary-fiscal interactions in a monetary union model with uncertainty due to imperfect central bank transparency. We first show that monetary uncertainty disciplines fiscal policymakers and thereby reduces taxes, average inflation and output distortions. However, as more...
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