Alpino, Matteo; Asatryan, Zareh; Blesse, Sebastian; … - 2020
What are the effects of austerity on distributional policy? We exploit the autonomy of Italian municipalities in setting … non-linear income taxes and the exogenous introduction of a fiscal rule to show that austerity increases tax progressivity …. Consistent with this evidence, we find that in a panel of countries austerity correlates with higher marginal tax rates on top …