Higher Taxes for Fiscal Consolidation? Expected and Unexpected Effects of Municipal Tax Policy

Fiscal Policy: Taxes, Distribution of National Income, and Social Security

On the Inequality Effects of Fiscal Policy

increasing concern with income distribution effects rather than growth effects of government activities has prompted numerous incidence analysis of government tax and expenditure behavior, in this paper, the extent of government contributions to changes in income inequality is analyzed for the Iranian economy. Some major findings of this research is that income distribution in urban areas was m...

Fiscal consolidation and climate policy: An overlapping generations perspective*

Available online 23 September 2013

Lottery tax windfalls, state-level fiscal policy, and consumption

We find that lottery tax windfalls finance higher state-government expenditures on supplemental security income that increase consumption, but only during bust periods. Wealth transfers from lottery winners to low income households enable fiscal policy to stabilize consumption during bust periods. © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Measuring the impact of government fiscal policy on cons...

The Incentive Effect of Fiscal Equalization Transfers on Tax Policy

A theoretical analysis considers the impact of a typical system of redistributive “fiscal equalization” transfers on the taxing effort of local jurisdictions. More specifically, it shows that the marginal contribution rate, i.e. the rate at which an increase in the tax base reduces those transfers, might be positively associated with the local tax rate while the volume of grants received is lik...