A major constraint on trade liberalization in many countries is the prospective loss of government revenue. Recent results, however, have established a simple and appealing strategy for overcoming this difficulty, whilst still realizing the efficiency gains from liberalization, in small,...

The last two decades witnessed trade liberalization in many developing countries. What caused this trend, and why have trade barriers been so ubiquitous when economic theory overwhelmingly supports free trade? This paper proposes that governments' revenue needs are the driving force. Governments...

A key obstacle to fundamental tariff reform in many developing countries is the revenue loss that it ultimately implies. This paper establishes a simple and practicable strategy for realizing the efficiency gains from tariff reform without reducing public revenues, showing that for a small open...

The paper studies the revenue, efficiency, and distributional implications of a simple strategy of offsetting tariff reductions with increases in destination-based consumption taxes so as to leave consumer prices unchanged. We employ a dynamic micro-founded macroeconomic model of a small open...

The paper studies the revenue, efficiency, and distributional implications of a simple strategy of offsetting tariff reductions with increases in destination-based consumption taxes so as to leave consumer prices unchanged. We employ a dynamic micro-founded macroeconomic model of a small open...

Die gegenwärtige Einkommensbesteuerung wird vielfach mit dem Schlagwort ""Steuerchaos"" charakterisiert. Vor diesem Hintergrund drängt sich die Notwendigkeit einer Neuorientierung auf. In diesem Band werden, ausgehend von den Problemen der Einkommensbesteuerung, konsumorientierte Steuersysteme...

Das Diskussionspapier liefert eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme verschiedener theoretischer Ansätze und empirischer Ergebnisse hinsichtlich der Wirkungen der Steuerpolitik auf Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit. In Anlehnung an den Mainstream der ökonomischen und finanzwissenschaftlichen...