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I quantify the welfare effects of replacing the US capital income tax with higher labor income taxes under international financial integration using a two-country, heterogeneous-agent incomplete markets model calibrated to represent the US and the rest of the world. Short-run and long-run factor...
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I quantify the welfare effects of replacing the US capital income tax with higher labor income taxes under international financial integration using a two-country, heterogeneous-agent incomplete markets model calibrated to represent the US and the rest of the world. Short-run and long-run factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084967
We study the impact of capital and labor taxation in an economy where couples bargain over the intrahousehold …. Our theory motivates these gains by the empirical observation that wealth, in contrast to labor income, is a commonly held …
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The gap between the interest rates of different members of the European Monetary Union (EMU) points out to an imperfect degree of financial integration despite the common currency. This paper develops a two-country New Open Economy Macroeconomics (NOEM) model with imperfect financial integration...
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On February 12, 2010, SUERF, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft continued their established tradition of jointly organised conferences. As evidenced also by the 115 conference participants, this year's subject of "Contagion and Spillovers – New...
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This paper analyzes the optimal use of fiscal policy and sovereign debt repayment as signals in an asymmetric information environment. It shows that the presence of government private information could turn an optimal full-information countercyclical fiscal policy into a pro-cyclical one that...
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rates, with our main emphasis on the stabilisation properties of progressive taxation. The models try to depict outcomes for … the solution by using realistic estimates for the parameters. In the one-country model progressive taxation tends to …. Progressive taxation stabilises prices definitely only in the case of a tax shock. In the cases of demand and supply shocks, the …
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This paper studies the effects of factor income taxation and of subsidies to human capital accumulation in models of … capital accumulation can offset the direct growth effects of labour taxation, making it akin to a consumption tax. The paper … then derives the normative implications of the analysis for the optimal taxation of factor incomes, showing that all tax …
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We use a two-sector neoclassical open economy model with traded and non-traded goods to investigate the effects of unanticipated and anticipated tax reforms. First, an unanticipated tax reform produces an expansion of GDP, labor, and investment, while an anticipated tax reform has opposite...
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We use a neoclassical open economy model with traded and non traded goods to investigate the sectoral effects of three tax reforms: i) two revenue-neutral shifting the tax burden from labor to consumption taxes and ii) one labor tax restructuring keeping the marginal tax wedge constant....
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