Welfare effect of flat income tax reform: the case of Bulgaria

A Vasilev - Eastern European Economics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This article is a first attempt to provide a quantitative evaluation of the welfare gains resulting
from the introduction of flat income taxation in Bulgaria in 2008. Using a calibrated …

Income tax evasion: Tax elasticity, welfare, and revenue

M Gillman - International Tax and Public Finance, 2021 - Springer
This paper provides a general equilibrium model of income tax evasion. As functions of the
share of income reported, the paper contributes an analytic derivation of the tax elasticity of …

Welfare gains from the adoption of proportional taxation in a general-equilibrium model with a grey economy: the case of Bulgaria's 2008 flat tax reform

A Vasilev - Economic Change and Restructuring, 2015 - Springer
This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of the welfare effect of the introduction of
proportional taxation in Bulgaria in 2008, an effect that operates through the grey economy …

Shift from gross profit taxation to distributed profit taxation: Are there effects on firms?

J Masso, J Meriküll, P Vahter - Journal of comparative economics, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the consequences of the corporate tax reform in Estonia in 2000.
This unique reform nullified the taxation of retained earnings and maintained corporate …

Roadmaps to post-communist neoliberalism: the case of the Baltic states

J Salyga - Journal of Baltic Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article uncovers the pre-1991 origins of Baltic neoliberal regimes. It highlights the role
of the communication networks between reformist economists in the Baltic National Fronts …

Computing economic equilibria using projection methods

A Miftakhova, K Schmedders… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The analysis of dynamic economic models routinely leads to the mathematical problem of
determining an unknown function for which no closed-form solution exists. Economists must …

Progressive taxation and (in) stability in an endogenous growth model with human capital accumulation

A Vasilev - 2016 - econstor.eu
We show that in an endogenous growth model with human accumulation calibrated to
Bulgarian data under the progressive taxation regime (1993-2007), the artificial economy …

Supply-side economics with AS-AD in Ramsey dynamic general equilibrium

M Gillman, S Benk, T Csabafi - Economic Analysis and Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
The Ramsey dynamic general equilibrium (RDGE) model has been applied broadly within
mainstream macroeconomic analysis. While the labor market of the RDGE model has long …

Gross profit taxation versus distributed profit taxation and firm performance: effects of Estonia's corporate income tax reform

J Masso, J Meriküll, P Vahter - The University of Tartu Faculty of …, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract Systems of profit taxation are undergoing continuous change and are subject to
numerous studies. This paper estimates the effect of the corporate tax reform in Estonia in …

Macroeconomic effects of zero corporate income tax on retained earnings

J Masso, J Meriküll - Baltic Journal of Economics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
International tax competition has led to a lowering of corporate tax rates worldwide. Estonia
was the first country to reduce the tax rate on retained earnings to zero, while distributed …