Time-varying Consumption Tax, Productive Government Spending, and Aggregate Instability

Mauro Bambi () and Alain Venditti

No 1829, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: In this paper we investigate if government balanced-budget rules together with endogenous taxation may lead to aggregate instability in an endogenous growth framework. After highlighting the differences with the exogenous growth framework, we prove that under counter-cyclical consumption taxes, while there exists a unique balanced growth path, sunspot equilibria based on self-fulfilling expectations occur through a form of global indeterminacy. In addition, we argue that this result is empirically plausible for a large set of OECD countries and that it may also emerge with endogenous income taxes.

Keywords: endogenous growth; time-varying consumption tax; global indeterminacy; self-fulfilling expectations; sunspot equilibria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C62 E32 H20 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2018-10
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