02112cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF004225 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451864250 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Park, Hyun. Expenditure Composition and Distortionary Tax for Equitable Economic Growth / Hyun Park. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006. 1 online resource (40 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper continues the study of optimal fiscal policy in a growing economy by exploring a case in which the government simultaneously provides three main categories of expenditures with distortionary tax finance: public production services, public consumption services, and state-contingent redistributive transfers. The paper shows that in a general equilibrium model with given exogenous fiscal policy, a nonlinear relation exists between the suboptimal longrun growth rate in a competitive economy and distortionary tax rates. When fiscal policy is endogenously chosen at a social optimum, the relation between the rate of growth and tax rates is always negative. These two conclusions suggest that the interaction between fiscal policy and growth may be complicated enough that it cannot be captured in a simple linear model using an aggregate measure of fiscal policy. The sources of nonlinearity include expectation and coordination of fiscal policy, impluse response of government policies, and the presence of positive externality due to government spending. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/165 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2006/165/001.2006.issue-165-en.xml IMF e-Library