What is the long-run effect of dividend taxation on aggregate capital accumulation? To address this question, we build a dynamic general equilibrium model in which there is a continuum of firms subject to idiosyncratic productivity shocks. This firm heterogeneity generates a cross-sectional...

Firms devote significant resources to maintain and repair thei existing capital. Within a real business cycle model featuring arguably small aggregate increasing returns, this paper assesses the stabilizing effects of fiscal policies with a maintenance expenditure allowance. In this setup, firms...

We analyze how investment subsidies can affect aggregate volatility and growth in economies subject to capital market imperfections. Within a model featuring both frictions on the credit market and unequal access to investment opportunities among individuals, we provide specific fiscal...

Comparative analysis of the rules of tax and accounting, highlights that between them there are differences, in addition to many common factors to which they appeal. Manifestation of the concrete that is given by the differences, usually the result of accounting and taxation. in relation to...

It has been shown that an otherwise standard one-sector real business cycle model may exhibit indeterminacy and sunspots under a balanced-budget rule that consists of fixed and “wasteful” government spending and proportional income taxation. However, the economy always displays saddle-path...

In this paper drawing from the theoretical framework developed by Shieh et al., (2002), we present an endogenous growth model to empirical analyze the growth maximizing allocation of public capital among military spending and investment in infrastructure. Using this general model of public...

Submitted to valuation is the specific role of the state by means of its budgetary policy on the economic and social development of the country after the introduction of the Currency Board. The generalized results from the investigation of the analogous role of the state for an extended period...

The budget policy is comparatively the strongest form of economic influence of the state over socioeconomic development. An attempt is made to distinguish between the major theoretic achievements and open problems of the influence as a basis first for the vindication of some already rejected...

This article is about an estimation of the evolution and level of hidden economy between 1964 and 2001 in Spain. The application of a monetary modeling to the Spanish’s economy evolution allows us to estimate the quantity of hidden economic activities, in case the majority of these activities...

El documento tiene como objetivo mostrar el reiterado fracaso de la política fiscal aplicada en el Perú durante los últimos años, así como establecer los lineamientos generales y específicos que deberían orientar la política fiscal en el mediano plazo para, luego, proponer reformas...