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because the small increments in all future tax rates to finance interest payments involves a smaller excess burden than the … single large tax rate increase that would be required to avoid an initial increase in the national debt. This argument … tax rates can be explicitly balanced against the disadvantage of the excess burden that arises from additional debt. The …
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tax rate for someone who (due to luck) became rich either five or one year(s) ago. Subjects faced with the five …-year scenario choose a lower tax rate, indicating respect for the more deeply embedded (five-year) reference point. Our results thus …
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Japan+ (Japan plus Korea). The model predicts dramatic increases in tax rates in the U.S., EU, India, and Russia. Indeed … potential for tax avoidance and tax evasion. …
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We demonstrate that the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL) cannot be used to determine the price level uniquely in the overlapping generations (OLG) model. We provide two examples of OLG models, one with three 3-period lives and one with 62-period lives. Both examples are calibrated to an...
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The fiscal theory says that the price level is determined by the ratio of nominal debt to the present value of real primary surpluses. I analyze long-term debt and optimal policy in the fiscal theory. I find that the maturity structure of the debt matters. For example, it determines whether news...
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In the context of several examples of problems associated with present budgetary conventions, I revisit Musgrave's conceptual division of the government's program into Allocation, Distribution and Stabilization Branch subbudgets. I suggest progress towards Musgrave's ideal of a more informative...
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I construct a simple model with sticky prices and interest rate targets, closed by fiscal theory of the price level with long-term debt and fiscal and monetary policy rules. Fiscal surpluses rise following deficits, to repay accumulated debt, but surpluses do not respond to all values of...
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We establish two underappreciated facts about costly search. First, unless demand is perfectly inelastic, search frictions can result in significant deadweight loss by decreasing consumption. Second, whenever cross-price elasticities are non-zero, costly search in one market also affects...
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nominal interest rate, and after-tax returns to investment goods determine the relative values of nominal and real assets …
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