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Progressive taxation and (in)stability in an exogenous growth model with non-market ("home") production

We show that in a exogenous growth model with non-market ("home") sector calibrated to Bulgarian data under the progressive taxation regime (1993-2007), the economy exhibits equilibrium indeterminacy due to the presence of non-market production. These results are in line with the findings 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. Under the flat tax regime (2008-16), the economy calibrated to Bulgarian data displays saddle-path stability. The decrease in the average effective tax rate addresses the indeterminacy issue and eliminates the "stable focus" dynamics.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Journal of Economics and Econometrics ; ISSN: 2032-9660 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: Forthcoming ; Brussels: The Economics and Econometrics Research Institute

Classification
Wirtschaft
Informal Labor Markets
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Subject
Progressive taxation
Non-market sector
Home production
Equilibrium (In)determinacy

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Vasilev, Aleksandar
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
The Economics and Econometrics Research Institute
ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
(where)
Brussels
(when)
2019

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  • Vasilev, Aleksandar
  • The Economics and Econometrics Research Institute
  • ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

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  • 2019

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