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Time-consistent Fiscal Policy under Heterogeneity: Conflicting or Common Interests?

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  • Konstantinos Angelopoulos
  • James Malley
  • Apostolis Philippopoulos

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This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of Markov-perfect tax-spending policy in a neoclassical growth model with capitalists and workers. Focusing on the long run, our main findings are: (i) it is optimal for a benevolent government, which cares equally about its citizens, to tax capital heavily and to subsidise labour; (ii) a Pareto improving means to reduce inefficiently high capital taxation under discretion is for the government to place greater weight on the welfare of capitalists; (iii) capitalists and workers preferences, regarding the optimal amount of "capitalist bias", are not aligned implying a conflict of interests.

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Paper provided by CESifo Group Munich in its series CESifo Working Paper Series with number 3444.

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Date of creation: 2011
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Handle: RePEc:ces:ceswps:_3444

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Keywords: optimal fiscal policy; Markov-perfect equilibrium; heterogeneous agents;

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Cited by:
  1. Konstantinos Angelopoulos & Wei Jiang & Jim Malley, 2011. "The Distributional Consequences of Tax Reforms under Market Distortions," CESifo Working Paper Series 3600, CESifo Group Munich.
  2. Konstantinos Angelopoulos & Bernardo X. Fernandez & James Malley, 2010. "The distributional consequences of supply-side reforms in general equilibrium," Working Papers 2010_26, Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow, revised Jun 2012.
  3. George Economides & Apostolis Philippopoulos, 2012. "Are User Fees Really Regressive?," CESifo Working Paper Series 3875, CESifo Group Munich.

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