Journal article

The fiscal response to revenue shocks

BP2-STS

  • 16.03.2022
Published in:
  • International Tax and Public Finance. - Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2023, vol. 30, no. 3, p. 814-848
English We study the impact of fiscal revenue shocks on local fiscal policy. We focus on the very volatile revenues from the immovable property gains tax in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, and analyze fiscal behavior following large and rare positive and negative transitory revenue shocks. We apply causal machine learning strategies and implement the post-double-selection LASSO method to identify the effect of revenue shocks on public finances. We find that local policymakers predominantly smooth transitory fiscal shocks.
Faculty
Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management
Department
Département d'économie politique
Language
  • English
Classification
Economics
License
CC BY
Open access status
hybrid
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https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/324806
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