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Tax cuts starve the beast! : evidence from Germany
Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2019
The 'starving the beast' hypothesis claims that tax cuts lead to lower public spending, rather than higher debt levels and higher taxes in the future. This paper uses the institutional setting of German fiscal federalism to its advantage in order to explore how fiscal policy reacts to exogenous...
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Thoughts on Dynamic Scoring of Fiscal Policies
Marron, Donald B. - 2016
Former CBO director Doug Elmendorf recently argued that Congress should account for macroeconomic feedback when scoring major tax and spending policies. In this brief, Donald Marron agrees, arguing that CBO and JCT can implement such dynamic scoring in an objective, nonpartisan manner. Dynamic...
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On the macroeconomic and fiscal effects of the tax cuts and jobs act
Lieberknecht, Philipp; Wieland, Volker - 2019
There is substantial disagreement about the consequences of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017, which constitutes the most extensive tax reform in the United States in more than 30 years. Using a large-scale two-country dynamic general equilibrium model with nominal rigidities, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011989723
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The near term growth impact of the tax cuts and jobs act
Mertens, Karel - 2018
This note uses existing empirical estimates of the macroeconomic effects of tax changes to project the near term impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on US GDP growth. Applying recent reduced form estimates of tax multipliers with the projected revenue impact of the Act yields a level of GDP that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880506
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On the macroeconomic and fiscal effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Lieberknecht, Philipp; Wieland, Volker - 2019
There is substantial disagreement about the consequences of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017, which constitutes the most extensive tax reform in the United States in more than 30 years. Using a large-scale two-country dynamic general equilibrium model with nominal rigidities, the authors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992385
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Steuertarif nicht der richtige Hebel für gezielte Entlastungen
Rietzler, Katja - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 102 (2022) 10, pp. 749-752
With the current high inflation, bracket creep is back on the agenda. The federal government has introduced a bill to compensate for this effect, among other things, by shifting income tax brackets. In the debate on bracket creep, the point of reference is very important. Results differ greatly...
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A comparative evaluation of fiscal stabilization strategies during the Covid-19 pandemic with Germany as a reference point
Baudisch, Victoria; Neuenkirch, Matthias - In: The Economists' voice 21 (2024) 1, pp. 29-63
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State-dependent effects of tax changes in Germany and the United Kingdom
Hayo, Bernd; Mierzwa, Sascha - 2021 - This version: 13 July 2021
We study state-dependent effects of narratively identified tax shocks in Germany and the UK over the period 1974Q1 … cuts initially have a larger effect during times of nonrecession in Germany, whereas we find no state-dependent effects for … cuts and hikes individually: tax hikes can be expansionary in Germany (UK) when implemented during non …
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Spillovers from tax shocks to the euro area
Mierzwa, Sascha - 2021 - This version: 07 September 2021
I study the spill-over effects of legislated discretionary tax changes in the United States, Germany, and the United …
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Legislative tax announcements and GDP : evidence from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom
Hayo, Bernd; Mierzwa, Sascha - 2021 - This version: 08 October 2021
We study the announcement effect of legislated tax changes on GDP in the US, Germany, and the UK. Using, as the shock … Germany. When allowing the responses to vary over the business cycle, we find evidence that US GDP drops regardless of the …
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