The publication u0091Structures of the taxation systems in the European Unionu0092 presents time series of tax revenue data from national accounts for the twenty-five Member States and Norway. It provides a breakdown of taxes according to different classifications: by types of taxes (direct...

This paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and unemployment rate versus high tax and unemployment rate) in which equilibrium selection is not conditioned on a sunspot variable. Instead, large enough shocks initiate unavoidable transitions from one regime to the other. The...