This paper studies wealth redistribution in a framework where individual portfolio choices and associated returns are correlated with wealth through: (i) type dependence, which reflects that investment skills drive returns and (ii) scale dependence, which captures that wealth itself triggers...

Dieser Aufsatz analysiert die Effekte der staatlichen Steuer- und Subventionspolitik hinsichtlich ihrer Wirkung auf das langfristige Wirtschaftswachstum. Untersucht werden mehrere einkommens- und gewinnabhängige Steuern auf Haushalts- und Unternehmensebene sowie eine von den Haushalten erhobene...

The effect of business tax and regulation on growth, together with potential effects of government spending on education and R&D, is embodied in a model of a small open economy with growth choices. The structural model is estimated on post-war panel data for 76 countries and the bootstrap is...

This paper studies the effects of distortionary taxes and public in- vestment in an endogenous growth OLG model with knowledge trans- mission. Fiscal policy affects growth in two respects: .rst, work time reacts to variations of prospective tax rates and modi.es knowledge formation; second,...

This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of the welfare effect of the introduc- tion of proportional taxation in Bulgaria in 2008, an effect that operates through the grey economy channel. Using a general-equilibrium model, augmented with informal sector, a computational experiment is...

This paper studies the effects of distortionary taxes and public investment in an endogenous growth OLG model with knowledge trans- mission. Fiscal policy affects growth in two respects: first, work time reacts to variations of prospective tax rates and modifies knowledge formation; second,...

We consider the optimal factor income taxation in a standard R&D model with technical change represented by an increase in the variety of intermediate goods. Redistributing the tax burden from labor to capital will in most cases increase the employment rate in equilibrium. This has opposite...

This paper surveys the tax policy implications in various endogenous growth models. The focus is on the long-run growth effects of income, consumption, and investment taxation in models whose engine of growth is the accumulation of human capital, technological innovation, and/or public...

Since the mid-1990s, Italy's economic growth faltered, primarily due to sluggish productivity growth. This article investigates the root causes of the slow growth. Firstly, it benchmarks Italy over time vis-à-vis euro area and OECD countries in the area of human capital, product market...

We assess the long-run growth effects of automation in the overlapping generations framework. Although automation implies constant returns to capital and, thus, an AK production side of the economy, positive long-run growth does not emerge. The reason is that automation suppresses wage income,...