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Land, men, taxation : an application to pre-modern China and Europe ; Erik Jones' European miracle revisited

Blankart, Charles B. - 2014

two tax systems came about. Taxation is only feasible when men and land can be linked as a single bundle. Taxation of land … is not feasible without men, and taxation of men is not feasible without land. A tax maximizing bureaucrat has to combine …

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Natural resource rents, autocracy and economic freedom

Endrikat, Morten - 2021

This paper theoretically and empirically investigates the effect of natural resource rents on the process of economic liberalization and a potential moderating effect of the level of democracy. A simple political-economic model is developed in which the government in an autocratic country faces...

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Growth-enhancing taxes

De Padua, David; Kiocho, Mae Hyacinth; Park, Donghyun - 2024

We investigate the conditions under which tax revenues can enhance economic growth. Using a newly constructed dataset consisting of 135 economies and spanning the period 1990-2019, we study how changes in tax revenues impact economic growth using a panel vector autoregression (PVAR) model. Tax...

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Inequality, Redistribution and Growth

Meijdam, Lex; Haile, D. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

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The Non-linear Effect of Corporate Taxes on Economic Growth

HUŇADY, Ján; ORVISKÁ, Marta - In: Timisoara Journal of Economics and Business 8 (2015) 1s, pp. 14-31

The paper deals with the problem of taxation and its potential impact on economic growth and presents some new … economic growth. Based on the theory of public finance and taxation, we hypothesize that at relatively low tax rates it is … possible that the impact of taxation on economic growth become slightly positive. On the other hand when the tax rates are …

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Common and private property to exhaustible resources: theoretical implications for economic growth

Borissov, Kirill; Surkov, Alexander - Department of Economics, European University at St. … - 2010

We develop two models of economic growth with exhaustible natural resources and consumers heterogeneous in time preferences. The first model assumes private ownership of natural resources. In the second model, natural resources are commonly owned and the resource extraction rate is chosen by...

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Endogenous growth in a model with heterogeneous agents and voting on public goods

Borissov, Kirill; Surkov, Alexander - Department of Economics, European University at St. … - 2010

-rate income taxation is higher than that in the case of lump-sum taxation. …

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Fiscal policy in a growth framework

Gemmell, Norman - 2001

This paper assesses recent theorising and empirical evidence on the impact of fiscal policy—taxes, public expenditures and budget deficits—on long-run growth. It considers the relevance of recent advances in growth theory for low-income countries and compares the evidence for low-income...

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The Long-run Effects of Household Liquidity Constraints and Taxation on Fertility, Education, Saving and Growth

Papagni, Erasmo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper investigates economic growth under liquidity constraints by taking into account the choices of fertility, human capital and saving. In a model of four overlapping generations, parents are altruistic towards their offspring and finance their education investment. The government...

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Taxation and Economic Growth

Johansson, Åsa; Heady, Chistopher; Arnold, Jens; Brys, Bert - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

-designing taxation within each of the broad tax categories could in some cases ensure sizeable efficiency gains. For example, reduced …

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