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Automatic stabilizers in the Japanese tax system

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When studying the role of taxes as an automatic stabilizer, excluding the effects of discretionary tax reform is troublesome. A fruitful approach to identifying tax movements over business cycles would be to utilize cyclical information. From this perspective, we exploit wavelets in order to characterize the automatic response of taxes to output at business cycle frequencies in the postwar Japanese economy. We find the presence of automatic stabilizers in the Japanese tax system under the influence of relatively high output volatility but the absence of such stabilizers during the period of the “Great Moderation” in Japan in the 1980s.

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  • Funashima, Yoshito, 2015. "Automatic stabilizers in the Japanese tax system," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 39(C), pages 86-93.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:asieco:v:39:y:2015:i:c:p:86-93
    DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2015.06.004
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    Keywords

    Automatic stabilizer; Output volatility; Business cycle; Wavelet; Japanese tax system;
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    JEL classification:

    • H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory

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