Céspedes, Nikita; Kuklik, Michael - Banco Central de Reserva del Perú - 2013
The optimal capital income tax rate is 36 percent as reported by Conesa, Kitao, and Krueger (2009). This result is mainly driven by the market incompleteness as well as the endogenous labor supply in a life-cycle framework. We show that this model fails to account for the basic life-cycle...