A Tale of Two Taxes: State-Dependency of Tax Policy

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In this paper, we build a simple endogenous growth model with labour and corporate taxes to investigate the asymmetric effects of tax policy over the growth trajectory. We employ a newly developed panel smooth transition model to empirically analyse a sample of 19 advanced economies over the 1961-2017 period. We find that both the asymmetric effects and the tax measures used are essential. We also find that the effects of corporate and personal taxes on long-run growth are non-linear, while the detrimental effects of personal taxes are empirically larger compared to those of corporate taxes once non-linearities are controlled for.

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fiscal policy, growth, panel smooth transition, tax policy

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Q4

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71

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1

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1

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27

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https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12360
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/2171

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