Ghiglino, Christian and Shell, Karl (1998) The economic effects of restrictions on government budget deficits. UNSPECIFIED. UNSPECIFIED.
Ghiglino, Christian and Shell, Karl (1998) The economic effects of restrictions on government budget deficits. UNSPECIFIED. UNSPECIFIED.
Ghiglino, Christian and Shell, Karl (1998) The economic effects of restrictions on government budget deficits. UNSPECIFIED. UNSPECIFIED.
Abstract
In overlapping-generations economies with perfect financial markets and lumpsum taxation, restrictions on the government budget deficits do not limit the set of achievable allocations. For economies in which tax instruments are distortionary and limited in number, deficits are irrelevant only in the unrealistic case in which the number of tax instruments is large relative to the number of policy goals. In particular, if the government can use only anonymous consumption taxes, then achieving the prescribed deficits without changing the equilibrium allocation will typically be impossible when the number of consumers exceeds the number of commodities. A similar result holds if consumer credit is (exogenously) restricted. Surprisingly, in this case, distortionary taxes may be more likely than lump-sum taxes to lead to the irrelevance of government deficits. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: D51, D91, E32.
Item Type: | Monograph (UNSPECIFIED) |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | G10; Balanced Budget; Balanced-Budget Amendment; Burden of the Public Debt; Comparative Statics; Consumption Taxes; Credit Restrictions; Distortionary Taxes; Economic Policy; Government Budget Deficit; Maastricht Treaty; Optimal Taxation; Overlapping Generations.; na |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 16 Jul 2012 18:00 |
Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2022 13:37 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/3028 |