Essays on the political economy of fiscal policy

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dc.contributor.advisorSchmidt-Hebbel, Klaus
dc.contributor.authorTello Paredes, José Carlos
dc.contributor.otherPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-13T19:29:56Z
dc.date.available2016-05-13T19:29:56Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionTesis (Magíster en Economía)--Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2014
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation consists of two essays on the political economy of fiscal policy. In the first essay, I analyze the persistent difference between legal and effective direct tax rate. This difference is explained by the level of tax enforcement. I consider that tax enforcement is a policy choice and study how society determines tax enforcement policy through a process of social preference aggregation. It find that tax enforcement causes an intertemporal conflict between workers and capitalists. In doing so, we seek a sharper answer to why direct tax enforcement varies across economies. In the second essay, coauthored with Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, we develop a dynamic general-equilibrium political-economy model for the optimal size and composition of public spending. An analytical solution is derived from majority voting for three government spending categories: public consumption goods and transfers, as well as productive government services. We establish conditions, in an environment of multi-dimensional voting, under which a non-monotonic, inverted U-shape relation between inequality and growth is obtained.
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dc.identifier.doi10.7764/tesisUC/ECO/15016
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.7764/tesisUC/ECO/15016
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/15016
dc.information.autorucInstituto de Economía ; Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus ; 0000-0001-5500-5720 ; 99699
dc.information.autorucInstituto de Economía ; Tello Paredes, José Carlos ; S/I ; 175492
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesoContenido completo
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.subject.ddc330
dc.subject.deweyEconomíaes_ES
dc.subject.otherPolítica fiscales_ES
dc.subject.otherPolítica económicaes_ES
dc.titleEssays on the political economy of fiscal policyes_ES
dc.typetesis de maestría
sipa.codpersvinculados99699
sipa.codpersvinculados175492
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