Supply-Side Economics in a Global Economy

60 Pages Posted: 1 Jul 2000 Last revised: 29 Nov 2022

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Enrique G. Mendoza

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); University of Pennsylvania

Linda L. Tesar

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: April 1995

Abstract

Recent quantitative studies predict large welfare gains from reducing tax distortions in a closed economy, despite costly transitional dynamics to more efficient tax systems. This paper examines transitional dynamics and gains of tax reforms for countries in a global economy, and provides numerical solutions for international tax competition games. Tax reforms in a global economy cause cross-country externalities through capital flows in response to consumption-smoothing and debt-servicing effects, with taxes on world payments affecting the distribution of welfare gains. Within the class of time-invariant tax rates, the gains of replacing income taxes with consumption taxes are large and, in the absence of taxes on foreign assets, the monopoly distortion separating cooperative and noncooperative equilibria is negligible. The analysis starts from a benchmark reflecting current G-7 fiscal policies, and considers the effects of tax reforms on real exchange rates and interest differentials. Tax-distorted equilibrium dynamics are computed using a modified version of the King-Plosser-Rebelo algorithm augmented with shooting routines.

Suggested Citation

Mendoza, Enrique G. and Tesar, Linda L., Supply-Side Economics in a Global Economy (April 1995). NBER Working Paper No. w5086, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=225864

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