The Horizontally s-shaped laffer curve

Patrick Fève, Julien Matheron and Jean-Guillaume Sahuc

No 17-774, TSE Working Papers from Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Abstract: In a neoclassical growth model with incomplete markets and heterogeneous, liquidity-constrained agents, the properties of the Laffer curve depend on whether debt or transfers are adjusted to balance the government budget constraint. The Laffer curve conditional on public debt is horizontally S-shaped. Two opposing forces explain this result. First, when government wealth increases, the fiscal burden declines, calling for lower tax rates. Second, because the interest rate decreases when government wealth increases, fiscal revenues may also decline, calling for higher taxes. For sufficiently negative government debt, the second force dominates, leading to the odd shape of the Laffer curve conditional on debt.

Keywords: Laffer Curve; Incomplete Markets; Labor Supply; Public Debt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E00 E60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-03
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