Hidden Economies and the Socially Optimal Fiscal-Tax to Liquidity-Tax Ratio

Marco Ercolani ()

No 2007-10, Economics Discussion Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Abstract: Differential tax analysis is used to show how the socially optimal fiscal-tax to liquidity-tax ratio changes with the relative size of the tax-evading hidden economy. The smaller the relative size of the hidden economy, the larger the optimal fiscal-tax to liquidity-tax ratio. The empirical cross-section and panel evidence supports this theoretical result. --

Keywords: inflation tax; hidden/shadow/underground economy; seigniorage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H21 E52 O17 E31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007
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