We use a New Keynesian DSGE model with a rental housing market to evaluate how financing a labor tax wedge reduction through higher property taxation affects the real economy and welfare. We find that a labor tax wedge reduction generates favorable macroeconomic effects and improves...

Michael Stimmelmayr undertakes the intricate task of analyzing the outcome and especially the efficiency gains of capital income tax reforms. The simultaneous alteration of several tax rates will induce multiple economy wide repercussions, as firms and households change their optimal behaviour...

We use a New Keynesian DSGE model with search frictions on the housing market to evaluate how financing a labor tax reduction by higher property taxation affects the real economy and welfare. Search on the housing market enables us to explicitly model stocks and flows, which is necessary to...