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Project

Taxation, fiscal policy and economic growth and employment
Acronym
FISC
Code
174S0107
Duration
01 January 2008 → 31 December 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: various
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Applied economics
    • Economic history
    • Macroeconomics and monetary economics
    • Microeconomics
    • Tourism
Keywords
home ownership fiscal policy economic growth employment taxes government expenditures
 
Project description
 

This project contains two parts:

*development, calibration and simulation of a general equilibrium macro model with overlapping generations for OECD countries. We study the relationships between (a) government expenditures and taxes, and (b) employment by age, education and economic growth.

*research into the relationship between ownership (and related taxes) and employment in Belgian districts since the 1970s (test Oswald hypothesis)