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dc.contributor.author | Aizenman, Joshua | en |
dc.contributor.author | Jinjarak, Yothin | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-28 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-09-28T12:41:20Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-09-28T12:41:20Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/64492 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper investigates the association between greater income inequality, de-facto fiscal space, and sovereign spreads. Using data from 50 countries in 2007, in 2009 and in 2011, we find that higher income inequality is associated with a lower tax base, lower de-facto fiscal space, and higher sovereign spreads. The economic magnitude of these effects is rather large: an increase in the Gini coefficient of inequality by 1 (in a scale of 0-100), is associated in 2011 with a lower tax base of 2 percent of the GDP, and with a higher sovereign spread of 45 basis points. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aUniversity of California, Economics Department |cSanta Cruz, CA | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aWorking Paper |x700 | en |
dc.subject.jel | H20 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D63 | en |
dc.subject.jel | F41 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | income inequality | en |
dc.subject.keyword | tax-base | en |
dc.subject.keyword | fiscal space | en |
dc.subject.keyword | sovereign spreads | en |
dc.subject.stw | Einkommensverteilung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Soziale Ungleichheit | en |
dc.subject.stw | Steuerbemessung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Öffentlicher Haushalt | en |
dc.subject.stw | Welt | en |
dc.title | Income inequality, tax base and sovereign spreads | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 718481372 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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