Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Asimakopoulos, Stylianos; … - 2013
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 …