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As part of Germany’s fiscal response to the Covid-19 pandemic, parents received three payments totalling e450 per child. Randomization in the payment dates and daily scanner data allow us to identify the effects of these transfers on household spending. We find a significant but small spending...
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This paper assesses the macroeconomic and distributional impact of personal income tax (PIT) reforms in the U … marginal tax rates; (ii) PIT cuts do 'trickle-down' the income distribution: tax cuts stimulate demand for non …-tradable services which raise the wages and employment prospects of low-skilled workers even if the tax cut is not directly incident on …
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Using the post-WWII data of U.S. federal corporate income tax changes, within a Smooth Transition VAR, this paper finds … that the output effect of capital income tax cuts is government debt-dependent: it is less expansionary when debt is high … than when it is low. To explore the mechanisms that can drive this fiscal state-dependent tax effect, the paper uses a DSGE …
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In this paper we provide short- and long-run tax buoyancy estimates for 107 countries (distributed between advanced … that: i) for advanced economies both long-run and short-run buoyancies are not different from one; ii) long run tax …
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robot tax that has featured prominently in the policy debate on automation and show that it could raise the capital stock … and per capita output at the steady state. However, the robot tax cannot induce a takeoff toward positive long-run growth. …
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-up scenarios, analyzing how improving the efficiency of capital spending and of tax revenue collection affect growth and debt …
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inflation levels exhibited during 2003-08, with focused attention to increasing efficiency and compliance in tax revenue … collection. Higher tax revenues can facilitate increases in public investment, which then crowd in private investment. The task …
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of the overall tax burden over per capita GDP. In average, an increase of 1 percent in the overall tax burden decreases …). Furthermore, additional econometric results pointed out that a revenue neutral fiscal policy which changes the tax structure …
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This paper evaluates policy alternatives to achieve permanent fiscal consolidation in Hungary, based on a general equilibrium calibration. The main finding is that the composition of the consolidation, as determined by the mix of revenue and expenditure measures, has important implications for...
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The paper traces the Baltics’ adjustment strategy during the 2008-09 global financial crisis. The abrupt end to the externally-financed domestic demand boom triggered a severe output collapse, bringing per capita income levels back to 2005/06 levels. In response to this shock, the Baltics...
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