Chapter 26 Optimal fiscal and monetary policy

Handbook of Macroeconomics

Volumn 1, Issue PART C, 1999, Pages 1671-1745

  Chari, V V ^a   Kehoe, Patrick J ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

capital income taxation; Friedman rule; primal approach; Ramsey problems; tax smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956721659     PISSN: 15740048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0048(99)10039-9     Document Type: Review

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