Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82944 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2000:5
Publisher: 
Uppsala University, Department of Economics, Uppsala
Abstract: 
In this paper, we analyze government budget balance within a simple model of endogenous growth. For the AK model, simple analytical conditions for a tax cut to be self-financing can be derived. The critical variable is not the tax rate per se, but the transfer-adjusted tax rate. We discuss some conceptual issues in dynamic revenue analysis, and we explain why previous studies have arrived at seemingly contradictory results. Finally, we perform an empirical study of the transfer-adjusted tax rates of the OECD countries to see which country has the highest potential for fiscal improvements; it turns out that only a few countries have any potential for such dynamic scoring.
Subjects: 
Laffer effects
intertemporal models
dynamic scoring
growth models
JEL: 
E62
O41
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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