. One novelty of this paper is to integrate crosscountry effects of both changes in income distribution and fiscal policy …. The model is used to estimate econometrically the effects of income distribution and fiscal policy on the components of … expansion. This policy mix leads to an improvement in the budget balance in all the EU15 countries, suggesting that expansionary …

This paper analyses the pre-tax inequality in the income that individuals actually receive in Brazil and the role of … the personal income tax in regulating these incomes. We produce a new distributional series of fiscal income, consistently … combining annual and nationally representative household survey data with detailed information on income tax declarations …