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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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's government uses linear taxation to fund exogenous expenditures and uses public debt to inter-temporally allocate tax distortions …. We characterize a class of environments in which the tax on labor goes to zero in the long run, while the tax on capital …
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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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This paper explores several issues concerning a possible zero lower bound (ZLB) including its theoretical rationale; the magnitude of effects of low sustained inflation on real interest rates; the validity of analyzing monetary policy in models with no monetary variables; and the dynamic...
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capital stock. The Pareto improving fiscal policies weakly expand every agent's budget set at every point in time. The … policies improve risk sharing and potentially guide the economy to a more efficient level of capital. In simulations, we find …
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segmentation is partly overcome by global arbitrageurs with limited capital. Our model accounts for the empirically documented …
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Researchers, using the survey conducted by Money Market Services, Inc., have found that the anticipated component in the Federal Reserve's weekly money supply announcement is negatively correlated with the post- announcement change in market yields. We prove that eliminating a (downward) bias in...
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