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preferences, and (ii) growth is endogenously sustained through innovations whose market value depends on the tax system. By … incentives to innovate. Tax policies aimed at short-run stabilization may substantially increase long run tax and growth risks … and reduce both average growth and welfare. In contrast, policies oriented toward long-run stabilization increase growth …
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keeping taxes, expenditures, and government employment relatively low. In an era of government growth, Florida's taxes and …
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public opinion once we include macro controls (real GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, and whether a country is in a EU …
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We study optimal fiscal policy in a standard incomplete-markets model with uninsurable idiosyncratic income risk, where a Ramsey planner chooses time-varying paths of proportional capital and labor income taxes, lump-sum transfers (or taxes), and government debt. We find that: (1) short-run...
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We examine fiscal adjustment episodes in 24 OECD countries in order to find how austerity affects debt and growth, and … likely to successfully reduce debt and enhance economic growth than tax increases. Our main innovations over these studies … suffifficiently large to remove the budget deficit. We find no indication that it matters whether the adjustment is achieved via …
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. Hence, the opportunity to address structural deficit problems and prepare for future demographic trends has been lost, and …
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In the presence of distortionary taxation, the destruction of wealth–either by an act of government or an act of God–can be welfare improving, because it increases the supply of labor and therefore (holding government spending constant) allows distortionary taxes to be lowered. We show that...
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We find that lottery tax windfalls finance higher state-government expenditures on supplemental security income that increase consumption, but only during bust periods. Wealth transfers from lottery winners to low income households enable fiscal policy to stabilize consumption during bust periods.
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expanded to include issues such as environmental taxes, the communications revolution and commercial growth of the Internet and … the relationships between taxation, investment, economic growth and jobs. And the G7, OECD and European Union are …
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on the cyclical sensitivity of budget deficit to economic activity and micro evidence on the tax and expenditure profiles …
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