Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/230416 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Cardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2018/10
Publisher: 
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the potential for a causal relationship between certain supply-side policies and UK output and productivity growth between 1970 and 2009. We outline an open economy DSGE model of the UK in which productivity growth is determined by the tax and regulatory environment faced by firms. This model is estimated and tested using simulation-based econometric methods (indirect inference). Using Monte Carlo methods we investigate the power of the test as we apply it, allowing the construction of uncertainty bounds for the structural parameter estimates and hence for the quantitative implications of policy reform in the estimated model. We also test and confirm the modelís identification, thus ensuring that the direction of causality is unambiguously from policy to productivity. The results offer robust empirical evidence that temporary changes in policies underpinning the business environment can have sizeable effects on economic growth over the medium term.
Subjects: 
Taxation
Regulation
Labour Market Regulation
Economic Growth
DSGE
JEL: 
E02
O4
O43
O5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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