The political economy literature presents a number of models that explain how political institutions influence economic outcomes. The aim of this paper is presentation of theoretical and empirical research that explain fiscal policy outcomes under proportional and majoritarian elections, and...

This volume is an invaluable guide for policymakers facing important decisions about environmental taxation, marginal tax rates, dividend taxation, and the taxation of business investment.

Recent failures of monetary and fiscal policy reflect deficiencies in prevailing theories of demand management. Taking available data into account, this book discusses the merits and shortcomings of Keynesian and monetarist approaches and develops the lines along which our theories need to be...

El estallido de la burbuja residencial en los Estados Unidos, a principios del 2007, rápidamente afecto al sector financiero no bancario y a los nuevos instrumentos crediticios y de seguros que se habían desarrollado al margen de las regulaciones nacionales e internacionales. Su efecto se...

The study of the incidence of the U.S. tax system has a long and impressive history that has proceeded along many different complementary paths.

We construct a computational dynamic stochasticand explore the impact of policy stickiness on optimal long-run fiscal policy.

The identification is made of those conditions by which it is possible to generate synergy or mutually enforcing relations between economic development and environment conservation with the perspective of a systems entropy flow limits. Monetary and fiscal policies are the framework of structural...

This paper provides a set of detailed estimated fiscal reaction functions for a panel of twenty industrialized countries, and it discusses commonalities and differences with regard to systematic fiscal policies across countries. In general, the countries in the panel adjust tax revenues strongly...