Political economy of Ramsey taxation

We study the dynamic taxation of capital and labor in the Ramsey model under the assumption that taxes and public good provision are decided by a self-interested politician who cannot commit to policies. We show that, as long as the politician is as patient as the citizens, the Chamley–Judd result o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron, Golosov, Mikhail, Tsyvinski, Aleh
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61786
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491