VoxEU, October 11, 2016, with Martin Gonzalez-Eiras. HTML.
- The US fiscal system underwent a radical transformation around the time of the Great Depression.
- Perceived cost differences of revenue collection across levels of government, due to general equilibrium effects, can partly explain the rise of tax centralization and intergovernmental grants.
- We develop a micro-founded general equilibrium model that blends politics and macroeconomics. (See the working paper.)