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Conventional wisdom states that the statutory split of payroll taxation between firms and workers is of no macroeconomic relevance, because the tax incidence is fully determined by the market structure. This paper breaks with this view by establishing a theoretical link between the statutory...
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This paper examines a dynamic stochastic economy with a benevolent government that cannot commit to future policies. Following Phelan and Stacchetti (2001), we consider sequential sustainable equilibria (SSE). We numerically solve for the set of equilibrium payoffs, and investigate whether the...
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This paper examines a dynamic stochastic economy with a benevolent government that cannot commit to its future policies. I consider equilibria that are time-consistent and allow for history-dependent strategies. A new numerical algorithm is developed to solve for the set of equilibrium payoffs....
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The author investigates the welfare cost of business cycles in an economy where households have heterogeneous trading technologies. In an economy with aggregate risk, the different portfolio choices induced by heterogeneous trading technologies lead to a larger consumption inequality in...
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This study investigates the welfare effects of business cycle fluctuations from distributional perspectives. To this end, we develop a quantitative heterogeneous-agent model which incorporates market incompleteness and non-convexity into the mapping from the time devoted to work to labor...
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This paper analyses optimal income taxes over the business cycle under a balanced-budget restriction, for low, middle … volatile and the tax rate for low income agents the least counter-cyclical. In contrast, the path of optimal taxes for the …-enhancing capital equipment technology and spending cuts is to increase the progressivity of income taxes. Finally, in response to …
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