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- Title
A DYNAMIC MODEL OF TAXATION, CORRUPTION, AND PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN THE DYNASTIC CYCLE: THE CASE OF IMPERIAL CHINA.
- Authors
Chan, Kenneth S.; Laffargue, Jean-Pierre; Azomahou, Théophile T.; Boucekkine, Raouf; Mohnen, Pierre; Verspagen, Bart
- Abstract
This paper develops a stochastic growth model that reproduces the main stylized facts of Imperial China's dynastic cycle—in particular, the time path of taxation, public spending, and corruption and their attendant impacts on production and income distribution. In this model, the emperor uses part of his tax income to finance the building of public capital and administrative institutions. This “institutional capital” enhances the productivity of the economy and limits extortion by the county magistrates. The dynastic cycle is driven by random shocks to the authority of the emperor and his central administration, which change the efficiency of institutional capital.
- Subjects
TAXATION; CORRUPTION; PUBLIC investments; INCOME inequality; EXTORTION
- Publication
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2016, Vol 20, Issue 8, p2123
- ISSN
1365-1005
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1017/S1365100515000218