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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| Format: | Revista |
| Idioma: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
1998.
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| Col·lecció: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 1998/122 |
| Accés en línia: | Full text available on IMF |