As the financial markets mature in a modern economy, capital gains tax concerns arise naturally among economists as well as policy makers. This paper intends to investigate the distortions of capital gains tax in an inflationary environment. We develop a dynamic general equilibrium, life-cycle...

This paper develops a model of the housing market incorporating a construction sector, a rental sector, and a housing demand sector to examine the long term consequences for the housing market of different types of capital gains taxes. The sector is based on an overlapping generations model of...

All tax theorists recognize that capital gains taxes ought to apply only to real gains; that is, those that are adjusted for inflation. This has never been the case in American history. As a consequence, a considerable portion of inflationary gains have been taxed as if they are real, according...

The escaped savings are critical for the cycle of money, as express the amount of money which leak from an economy and not return back to make more economic cycles. This paper is about the comparison of the cycle of money including the escaping savings and without the escaping saving. Then, it...

How does economic activity outside of government control-informality-affect the conduct of fiscal and monetary policy? I study this question in a New Keynesian, small open economy model. The model is assumed to feature informality in both goods and labor markets. A non-traded sector produces a...