How Do Laffer Curves Differ Across Countries?

Mathias Trabandt, Harald Uhlig

NBER Working Paper No. 17862
Issued in February 2012, Revised in May 2012

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We are grateful to Roel Beetsma and Jaume Ventura for useful discussions. Further, we are grateful to Alan Auerbach, Alberto Alesina, Axel Boersch-Supan, Francesco Giavazzi, Laurence Kotliko and Valerie Ramey for useful comments and suggestions. The views expressed in this paper are solely the responsibility of the authors and should not be interpreted as reflecting the views of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, nor those of any other person associated with the Federal Reserve System, nor of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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