Journal of Tax Reform
Fiscal or monetary stimulus? Evolutionary arguments for tax reforms
Valentine P. Vishnevsky, Alexey V. Polovyan
Institute of the Economy of Industry of the NAS of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
Institute of Economic Research, Donetsk, Ukraine
Abstract
The article deals with the problem of substantiation of the emergent economies development regulatory measures (fiscal and / or monetary), using the evolutionary modelling methods. For this purpose, the mathematical model was constructed that simulates the co-evolution process of the advanced and developing countries, linked by global value chains. In this model, each country is characterized by its original structure of economic entities, defined by the ratio of the egoistic enterprises (predisposed to conservative behaviour) to the altruistic enterprises (predisposed to innovation), as well as by specific population and demographic processes. The results of the computational experiments have shown that the success of economic regulation fundamentally depends on the peculiarities of the initial state of the institutional environment. In the institutional environment with the «transparent» long behaviour and, accordingly, a long economic planning horizon, the best result in the form of average annual production growth rate of the emergent economies is provided by the cheap money policy combined with the high European taxes. A different situation is observed in more realistic short behaviour and, accordingly, short (under 5 years) economic planning horizon. In this case, any tax policy (neither low nor high taxes) together with any money (neither cheap nor expensive), to a certain extent loses its significance, as the initially backward innovative system does not allow to quickly get good results, and the long-term benefits of the potential economic growth are not taken into consideration. However, low taxes and cheap money are important as they create better conditions for survival of the altruistic enterprises, facilitating their investment activities, which can multiply increase their technical performance and economic efficiency. Still, in the context of the evolutionary economics and following the conducted computational experiments, the fiscal policy in terms of emerging markets retains its regulatory capacity, and therefore requires further reforms in the context of the «new reality» based on the global value chains.
Keywords
Fiscal policy; monetary policy; taxes; evolutionary economics; coevolution; institutional environment; mathematical model; enterprises; investment; economic growth.
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About Authors
Valentine P. Vishnevsky — Doctor of Economics, Professor, Deputy Director of the Instituteof Industrial Economics of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine(26 P. Mirnogo St., 01011, Kiev, Ukraine); e-mail: vvishn@mail.ru.
Alexey V. Polovyan — Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor, Director of the Instituteof Economic Research, Donetsk, Ukraine (77 Universitetskaya St., 283048, Donetsk, Ukraine);e-mail polovyan@yandex.ru.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/jtr.2016.2.3.025
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