Capital Taxation under Political Constraints

This paper studies optimal dynamic tax policy under the threat of political reform. A policy will be reformed ex post if a large enough coalition of citizens supports reform; thus, sustainable policies are those that will continue to attract enough political support in the future. We find that optim...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Scheuer, Florian, Wolitzky, Alexander Greenberg
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association (AEA) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103979
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7277-4118