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Optimal fiscal policy with social status and productive government expenditure

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  • Seiya Fujisaki

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    (Department of Education, Shinshu University)

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    We examine the optimal tax rule in an endogenous growth model with public capital and wealth-enhanced social status. When government expenditure is productive, the equality of marginal productivities of private and public capital holds. Wealth-induced preference can violate this equality, since the marginal utility from private capital is also a value of private capital. We obtain the optimal fiscal policy in which the positive income tax rate is higher than the subsidy rate for saving but is lower than the tax rate in the case without social-status preference.

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    Volume (Year): 32 (2012)
    Issue (Month): 1 ()
    Pages: 960-968

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    Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-11-00734
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    Keywords: social-status preference; productive government expenditure; the optimal tax rate;

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    • E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
    • H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies

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    1. Christiane Clemens, 2004. "Status, Risk-Taking and Intertemporal Substitution in an Endogenous Growth Model," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 83(2), pages 103-123, November.
    2. G Mez, Manuel A., 2004. "Optimal Fiscal Policy In A Growing Economy With Public Capital," Macroeconomic Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 8(04), pages 419-435, September.
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    Cited by:

    1. Fujisaki, Seiya, 2016. "Macroeconomic Effect of Consumption Tax on ”Dynamic” and ”Myopic” Agents," MPRA Paper 73500, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Fujisaki, Seiya, 2016. "Equilibrium Determinacy and Policy Rules : Role of Productive Money and Government Expenditure," MPRA Paper 69834, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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