We evaluate the effect on welfare of shifting the burden of capital income taxes to labour taxes in a dynamic equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and constant tax rates. We calibrate and simulate the economy; we find that lowering capital taxes has two effects: it increases efficiency in...

Assuming the role of debt management is to provide hedging against fiscal shocks we consider: ("i") what indicators can be used to assess the performance of debt management? ("ii") how well historical debt management policies have performed ("iii") how performance is affected by variations in...