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Identifying optimal contingent fiscal policies in a business cycle model

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  • Baltasar Manzano
  • Rafaela Pérez
  • Jesús Ruiz

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Optimal fiscal policy is indeterminate in a dynamic and stochastic environment. The complete characterization of the fiscal policy requires the use of identification constraints. In the literature either capital taxes or debt have been restricted to be not contingent on the state of nature. We propose a different type of identification constraints to have both policy variables state-contingent. Three alternative identification conditions are considered: (i) restrictions on the dynamic and stochastic behavior of the debt path; (ii) an exogenous debt path, and (iii) an exogenous belief function. The main result indicates that the optimal capital tax is zero and constant over the business cycle for any of the identification conditions used, suggesting that is optimal for the government to use debt return as a shock absorber, keeping capital taxes constant. The result is quite different from the previous literature, which obtains very volatile capital taxes. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2005

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  • Baltasar Manzano & Rafaela Pérez & Jesús Ruiz, 2005. "Identifying optimal contingent fiscal policies in a business cycle model," Spanish Economic Review, Springer;Spanish Economic Association, vol. 7(4), pages 245-266, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:specre:v:7:y:2005:i:4:p:245-266
    DOI: 10.1007/s10108-005-0101-2
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    Optimal taxation; indeterminacy.;

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