Optimal Intertemporal Taxationon Consumption and the Term Structure of Government Debt.

This paper addresses the time-consistency problem of optimal policy when intertemporal prices are inflexible. For small, open economies facing given world interest rates, it shows that a consumption tax, rather than a tax on wage income, is time-consistent under a variety of circumstances, even incl...

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Ente Autore: International Monetary Fund
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1988.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1988/115
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF