Tax Structure and Growth: Are Some Taxes Better Than Others?

By Frida Widmalm. 2001

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Tax-spending policies and economic growth: Theoretical predictions and evidence from the OECD (2007, background): “A similar negative effect has been also obtained by Easterly and Rebelo (1993) and Widmalm (2001), who however use different data on income taxes.”
Meta-analysis of the impact of fiscal policies on long-run growth (2004, background): “For example, Padovano and Galli (2001, 2002) and Widmalm (2001) show that marginal tax rates and tax progressivity have a negative effect on growth, although Myles (2000) maintains in a survey that the tax effect on growth is very weak.”
The Quality of Growth: Fiscal Policies for Better Results (2008, methodology): “Widmalm 2001, using a panel of 23 OECD countries, found that different taxes have different growth effects and that tax progressivity is bad for growth.”
An analysis of the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth (2009, methodology): “Following the suggestion from Widmalm (2001) to reduce multicollinearity, no pair of variables in I, X or FDI, which measure the same underlying phenomenon is used.”