CONTEXT Pricing policies have been posited as potential policy instruments to address the increasing prevalence of obesity. This article examines whether altering the cost of unhealthy, energy-dense foods, compared with healthy, less-dense foods through the use of fiscal pricing (tax or subsidy) policy instruments would, in fact, change food consumption patterns and overall diet enough to signi...

The tax-expenditure hypothesis posed by Milton Friedman emphasizes a positive causal relationship between government tax revenues and government expenditures. If citizens do not have a correct perception of the real tax burden and under-estimate the price of public goods and services, there is a negative causal relationship between tax revenues and government expenditures, which indicates exist...

The traditional theory of fiscal federalism prescribes a very limited tax base for subnational governments. The only good local taxes are said to be those that are easy to administer locally, are imposed solely (or mainly) on local residents, and do not raise problems of harmonization or competition between subnational – local or regional governments or between subnational and national governme...

Countries aim to inclusive growth find a common solution the problems that poverty, income inequality, and unemployment. To boost growth, policies differ by country but fiscal play crucial role in making more inclusive. In this study, five different indices were calculated measure whether Turkish economic was After obtaining result is inclusive, used as indicator, we inquired which direction on...

The aim of this study is to develop a feminist Post-Keynesian/Post-Kaleckian model theoretically analyze the effects labor market and fiscal policies on growth employment. develops three-sector gendered macroeconomic with physical social sectors (health, care, education, childcare) in public private economy, an unpaid reproductive sector providing domestic care. It provides theoretical analysis...

TITLE OF DISSERTATION: ESSAYS ON OPTIMAL AID AND FISCAL POLICY IN DEVELOPING ECONOMIES Ryan Niladri Banerjee, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Dissertation directed by: Professor Enrique G. Mendoza Department of Economics Essay I: Which countries receive aid as insurance and why? A theory of optimal aid policy Empirical evidence shows that developing countries with opaque institutions receive procycl...

This paper contributes to recent work in political economy and public finance that focuses on how details of the tax code, rather than tax rates, are used to implement redistributive fiscal policies. I use tools from natural language processing to construct a high-dimensional representation of tax code changes from the text of 1.6 million statutes enacted by state legislatures since 1963. A dat...

The paper investigates the stabilizing potential of fiscal policy in a monetary union. The discussion about fiscal stabilization policy has been revived in the context of EMU. We consider a taxation-based stabilization policy, where the fiscal authority intends to minimize the output gap. As policy instrument, we consider a time-varying component in taxes on consumption. The model combines a mo...

We generate observable expectations about fiscal variables through laboratory experiments using real world data from several European countries as stimuli. We estimate an econometric model of individual expectations for fiscal policy, which nests various theories of expectations–forming and encompasses both microand macroeconomic lines of research on fiscal policy. Agents’ expectations are foun...

We study monetary and fiscal policy games in a dynamic sticky price economy where monetary policy sets nominal interest rates and fiscal policy provides public goods financed with distortionary labor taxes. We compare the Ramsey outcome to non-cooperative policy regimes where one or both policymakers lack commitment power. Absence of fiscal commitment gives rise to a public spending bias, while...