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The origins of state capacity: property rights, taxation, and politics

Besley, Timothy; Persson, Torsten - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 4, pp. 1218-1244

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Can Taxes and Bonds Finance Government Spending?

Bell, Stephanie - 1998

taxes and bond sales. The argument is a technical one and requires a detailed analysis of reserve accounting at the central …

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Tying governments' hands in commodity taxation

Schuknecht, Ludger - 1998 - Manuscript date: May, 1997; Revised: May, 1998

In the 1970s, taxation of "windfall" profits from primary products and intervention in trade and production has tempted governments into expansionary fiscal policies while stifling the private sector and depressing growth. However, the experience of the recent coffee boom has so far been more...

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The Government Spending Multiplier and Fiscal Financing : Insights from Japan

Iwata, Yasuharu - 2011

All fiscal stimulus measures must ultimately be financed, and thus their effects critically depend on the expectations of how they are to be financed. This paper examines the importance of tax rules in determining the size of the government spending multiplier by estimating and simulating a New...

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The Impact of Public Budgets on Overall Productivity Growth

Handler, Heinz - 2011

To fulfill their tasks, governments rely on public expenditures and taxes. Both influence the incentives and shape the …. Unfortunately, this survey shows that the empirical literature too is inconclusive: although the growth and composition of public … expenditures and taxes as well as the fiscal stance seem to have some effect in the short run, their long-run implications cannot …

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Government Spending, Taxes, and Economic Growth

Cashin, Paul Anthony - 2006

payments are modeled, as is the growth-inhibiting influence of the levying of distortionary taxes which are used to fund such …

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The role of automatic stabilizers in business cycle : the case of Indonesia

Kuncoro, Haryo - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 10 (2021) 2, pp. 167-184

The use of large fiscal stimulus packages to dampen the impact of Covid-19 recently has raised concerns about the effectiveness of the discretionary fiscal policy. This paper aims at analysing the feasibility of automatic fiscal stabilisers to mitigate economic fluctuations in the case of...

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