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Indeterminacy and stabilization policy

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  • Jang-Ting Guo
  • Kevin J. Lansing

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A demonstration of how an income tax schedule that exhibits a progressivity feature can ensure saddle-path stability in a one-sector, real business-cycle model with sufficient increasing returns in production, thereby shielding the economy against sunspot fluctuations.

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  • Jang-Ting Guo & Kevin J. Lansing, 1997. "Indeterminacy and stabilization policy," Working Papers (Old Series) 9708, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
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    Economic stabilization ; Business cycles;

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