Arbeitspapier

Progressive taxation and (in)stability in an exogenous growth model with Epstein-Zin recursive preferences

We show that in a exogenous growth model with Epstein-Zin (1989, 1991) recursive preferences calibrated to Bulgarian data under the progressive taxation regime (1993- 2007), the economy exhibits equilibrium indeterminacy. These results are in line with the fi ndings in Benhabib and Farmer (1994, 1996) and Farmer (1999). Also, the findings in this paper are in contrast to Guo and Lansing (1988) who argue that progressive taxation works as an automatic stabilizer. In contrast, under the flat tax regime (2008-16), the same economy calibrated to Bulgarian data now displays saddle-path stability. The decrease in the average effective tax rate addresses the indeterminacy issue and eliminates the "sink" dynamics.

Sprache
Englisch

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Exchange and Production Economies
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
Thema
Progressive taxation
Epstein-Zin preferences
Equilibrium (In)determinacy
Bulgaria

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Vasilev, Aleksandar
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
(wo)
Kiel, Hamburg
(wann)
2018

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Vasilev, Aleksandar
  • ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Entstanden

  • 2018

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