Tax Smoothing in a Financially Repressed Economy : Evidence from India /

India has a long history of running fiscal deficits. Two broad considerations motivate a government to run a deficit: tax smoothing and tax tilting. This paper tests a version of Barro's tax-smoothing model, using Indian data for the period 1951-52 to 1996-97. The empirical results indicate tha...

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Päätekijä: Cashin, Paul
Muut tekijät: Olekalns, Nilss, Sahay, Ratna
Aineistotyyppi: Aikakauslehti
Kieli:English
Julkaistu: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Sarja:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/122
Linkit:Full text available on IMF