Increasing the capital income tax may lead to faster growth

European Economic Review

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1521-1540

  Uhlig, Harald ^a,b   Yanagawa, Noriyuki ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capital income taxation; Endogenous growth; Overlapping generations

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL INCOME; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENDOGENOUS GROWTH; INCOME TAX; OVERLAPPPING GENERATIONS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0030428581     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0014-2921(96)00032-3     Document Type: Article

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