This paper estimates the effects of exogenous changes in income and consumption taxes.
The tax shocks are proxied with a narrative account of tax liability changes in the United …

At least in principle, this conservative approach makes corruption easier to detect and
measure, apart from the fiaws of legal politics and policy making. However, a perfect …

This study estimates the effect of an increase in Japan's value-added tax (VAT) rate on the
timing of household expenditures and consumption, which do not necessarily coincide. The …

We extend marginal excess burden (MEB) analysis in public finance literature to a dynamic
general equilibrium model with incomplete markets and heterogeneous households. This …

La société québécoise vieillit et la pression exercée sur les dépenses publiques,
particulièrement sur celles du ministère de la Santé, nécessite un financement important …

We study the incidence of capital income taxation in a dynamic general equilibrium model
with heterogeneous firms and lifecycle households. In this incomplete market setting …

L'objectif de cette thèse est d'évaluer les conséquences du vieillissement démographique
sur le système des retraites ainsi que ses impacts macroéconomiques pour l'économie …

This thesis comprises three papers which focus on various aspects of the question of which
combination of taxesbest'funds government expenditure. The papers take a positive …

This paper tries to expand a static computable general equilibrium (CGE) model in a
dynamic context, and it explores the dynamic impact of population aging on the Japanese …