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Assessing tax evasion within an endogenous growth model with productive public expenditure

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in Economics.
dc.contributor.advisor Zenginobuz, Ekrem Ünal.
dc.contributor.author Tokgöz, Mehmet Emre.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T12:00:35Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T12:00:35Z
dc.date.issued 2010.
dc.identifier.other EC 2010 T65
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/16407
dc.description.abstract By setting up an endogenous growth model with productive government expenditures, this thesis analyzes effects of tax rate, deterrence policies, corruption and government externality level on tax evasion decision of economic agents. Moreover, within a Ramsey-type problem, I investigate optimal tax policy, audit rate, and level of public expenditures within an economy that is characterized by tax evasion. The thesis incorporates analytical solutions and supplements them by quantitative analysis by calibration of the model for Turkey. The results show that under the existence of tax evasion, optimal leveI of productive public expenditure would be less than the efficiency level stated in Barro (1990). In addition, existence of tax evasion would not necessarily require higher optima1 tax rates compared to the case of no evasion. In fact, quantitative analysis suggests a lower tax rate. Moreover, optimal conditions do not necessitate complete elimination of tax evasion. The results also show that optimal policies have potential to bring about significant gains on growth rate depending on the positive externality level of public expenditures and the level of corruption in the economy.
dc.format.extent 30cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.subject.lcsh Tax evasion -- Turkey.
dc.title Assessing tax evasion within an endogenous growth model with productive public expenditure
dc.format.pages viii, 61 leaves;


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