Hoffnungen, die Steuereinnahmen könnten 1995 aus konjunkturellen Gründen noch kräftiger sprudeln, als ohnehin schon erwartet, sind unbegründet. Das nominale Bruttoinlandsprodukt müßte in diesem Fall deutlich mehr wachsen als zuletzt im November geschätzt. Davon ist aus heutiger Sicht...

This paper analyses optimal income taxes over the business cycle under a balanced-budget restriction, for low, middle and high income households. A model incorporating capital-skill complementarity in production and differential access to capital and labour markets is developed to capture the...

Natural-resource taxation and investment exhibit cycles in a vast number of countries, driving political turmoil and power shifts. Using a rational-expectations model, we show cycles result from governments' inability to commit to future taxes and firms' inability to credibly exit a country...

Natural-resource taxation and investment exhibit cycles in a vast number of countries, driving political turmoil and power shifts. Using a rational-expectations model, we show cycles result from governments' inability to commit to future taxes and firms' inability to credibly exit a country...