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We examine the long-run GDP impacts of changes in total government expenditure and in the shares of different spending … associated with, at most, modestly lower long-run GDP levels. …
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over the next 50 years, can be expected to finance expected increases in social welfare expenditures. Projections from two … separate models, dealing with social expenditures and income tax and GST revenue, are used. The results suggest that the modest …
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Theoretical developments, improved methodologies and more extensive data have helped generate a dramatic increase in the literature testing for the impact of government size and fiscal policy on economic growth in recent years. We review a range of the more recent evidence and examine (1) the...
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Theoretical developments, improved methodologies and more extensive data have helped generate a dramatic increase in the literature testing or the impact of government size and fiscal policy on economic growth in recent years. We review a range of the more recent evidence and examine (1) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820104
expenditures and budget deficits—on long-run growth. It considers the relevance of recent advances in growth theory for low …
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Recent evidence on the impact of fiscal policy – taxes, public expenditures and budget deficits – on long-run growth in … OECD countries has adopted the Barro (1990) framework to distinguish between ‘productive’ and ‘unproductive’ expenditures … individual country growth effects of actual changes in taxes, expenditures and deficits appear plausible at around –0.3 to +0 …
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of statistically robust, but economically small, GDP growth effects from changes in marginal rates of both personal and …
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morale could help both to understand and to fight tax evasion. In this paper we analyze the effect of progressive taxation on …
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The objective of the paper is to explore the saving and consumption responses of a representative household to a range of policy interventions such as changes in taxes and pension settings. To achieve this, it develops a two-period life-cycle model. The representative household maximises...
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Previous reviews of static labor supply estimations concentrate mainly on the evidence from the 1980s and 1990s, Anglo-Saxon countries and early generations of labor supply modeling. This paper provides a fresh characterization of steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe and the...
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