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obtain 8% and 1%. Dynamic scoring for the EU-14 shows that 54% of a labor tax cut and 79% of a capital tax cut are self-financing …We compare Laffer curves for labor and capital taxation for the US, the EU-14 and individual European countries, using … US can increase tax revenues by 30% by raising labor taxes and by 6% by raising capital income taxes. For the EU-14 we …
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The importance of financial markets and international capital flows have increased greatly since the 1990s. How does …
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We develop a rational expectations framework to study the consequences of alternative means to resolve the "unfunded liabilities'' problem---unsustainable exponential growth in federal Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid spending with no plan to finance it. Resolution requires specifying a...
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European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment … adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms. Venture capital and private equity investors are especially sensitive to these … labor adjustment costs. Nations favoring labor expenditures as the mechanism for providing worker insurance developed …
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exposures to NBFI and dollar funding, with less priority for regulations focused on residency (i.e., capital controls). After …
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Before the recent recession, the consensus among researchers was that the zero lower bound (ZLB) probably would not pose a significant problem for monetary policy as long as a central bank aimed for an inflation rate of about 2 percent; some have even argued that an appreciably lower target...
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