Selective factor taxes under imperfect mobility: the Harberger model after thirty years
This paper characterizes the role of capital and labor mobility in the shifting of capital taxes in Harberger-type 2X2 general-equilibrium model with partially-mobile factors. We first provide and examine an intuitive decomposition of the incidence of a selective capital tax into a "specificity...
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| Tipo de recurso: | informe técnico |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1993 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/64036 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/64036 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Movilidad del Capital. Teorías económicas 5307 Teoría Económica |
| Sumario: | This paper characterizes the role of capital and labor mobility in the shifting of capital taxes in Harberger-type 2X2 general-equilibrium model with partially-mobile factors. We first provide and examine an intuitive decomposition of the incidence of a selective capital tax into a "specificity effect" and a "mobility effect". Then we extend Harberger's incidence theorems lo a partially-mobile factors context. The relevance of factor mobility differentials is examined. We also show that a surprising number of elements of Harberger's theorems carry over in the partially-mobile-factors model. |
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