Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/148862 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2016-026
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Abstract: 
To quantify fiscal multipliers in Eurozone countries, ECB, European Commission, and IMF draw heavily on large-scale DSGE models. In these models, the value added tax (VAT) is represented by a consumption tax, implying that changes in the tax liability directly translate into changes in consumer prices. This is inconsistent with empirical evidence suggesting that VAT pass-through in Europe is only gradual. To study the implications of this shortcoming for VAT multipliers, I derive a DSGE model featuring both a consumption tax and a VAT with pass-through dynamics consistent with empirical evidence. Short-run multipliers from the consumption tax are dramatically larger than those from the VAT, which suggests systematic overestimation in institutional research.
Subjects: 
Fiscal multipliers
value added tax
tax pass-through
DSGE models
JEL: 
E62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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