Working Paper
The Role of Taxes as Automatic Destabilizers in New Keynesian Economics
Claus Thustrup Hansen, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven
CESifo, Munich, 2000
CESifo Working Paper No. 399
CESifo, Munich, 2000
CESifo Working Paper No. 399
This paper analyses the effects of taxation in New Keynesian economics. The results show that taxes contribute to price and wage stickiness and, moreover, that the resulting fluctuations in welfare are magnified by the presence of taxes. These results are at odds with the old Keynesian idea of automatic stabilizers.
Keywords: New Keynesian economics, taxation, automatic stabilizers, JEL Classification: E32, E62