Vito Tanzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1088065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vito Tanzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vito |
| FAMILY NAME | Tanzi |
| SIGNATURE | TANZI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Monetary Fund |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Role of the State and the Quality of the Public Sector1
The author of this article concludes that the quality of the public sector can be assessed only against the role of the State. In general, an efficient public sector should be able to achieve the State’s objectives with the minimum degree of distortion of the market, with the lowest burden of taxation on taxpayers, with the smallest number of public employees, and with the lowest absorption of economic resources by the public sector. The public s…
Taxation and economic growth
This article provides an agnostic, historical review of taxation and economic growth. It critically evaluates how the relationship between the two has evolved throughout modern history. After an introduction that provides a general overview of the relationship between taxation and growth, the article first discusses the positive role of taxes in promoting economic development in the pre-war and post-war periods of the 1940s. It then critically co…
Pandemics and the role of governments
The recent pandemic has raised fundamental questions about the traditional role of government. That role has stressed the pursuit of national interests and identified the tools that governments should use in the pursuit of those interests. While over the past century the desirable role of the state was amended to include new objectives (such as equity and stabilization) the focus had remained national interests. This paper argues that this nation…
China's economy
Why did China grow so fast in the past four decades? What were the main factors? Important ones were: attitude of government; opening to the world; role of culture; exploitation of technological gap; role of foreign trained students; and role of government in the creation of modern infrastructure. These factors are likely to play a much smaller role in the future while several negative factors –populism, trade wars, environmental obstacles, aging…
Corruption, complexity and tax evasion
Tax evasion is facilitated by corruption, and corruption is facilitated by tax complexity. This article argues and presents evidence that tax systems have become far more complex than they need to be. The growth of public sector operations over the past century was accompanied by higher and more complex taxes, higher public spending, many new government programs, and an increasing involvement by governments in the functioning of the countries’ ec…
Welfare Systems and Their Complexity
In different periods, economists and policy-makers have focused their attention on various aspects of fiscal policies, such as the accumulation of public debt and the impact of taxes on growth, the impact of fiscal policies on aggregate demand and the ability to reduce the severity of recessions, as well as the effect that they might have on the incentives of economic operators and on economic efficiency. This paper considers another aspect, whic…
Termites of the State
Government versus Markets
Corruption and the economy
This paper focuses on the economic and not on the political impact of corruption. Corruption delegitimizes the working of a market economy, as well as the outcomes of political processes. This paper highlights ways in which corruption, by distorting economic decisions and the working of the market economy, inevitably reduces a country?s rate of growth. The paper also discusses some of the channels through which corruption distorts various economi…
Income distribution determinants and public spending efficiency
Public sector efficiency
Tributación para la integración del Mercosur
Este documento surge a solicitud del Grupo Mercado Común del MERCOSUR, y presenta la recopilación de los trabajos presentados en la reunión del Diálogo Subregional de Viceministros sobre Armonización Tributaria en la ciudad de Buenos Aires, en junio de 2004. El documento contiene un capítulo inicial del Prof. Vito Tanzi sobre globalización y sistemas tributarios que constituye un marco de fondo de las transformaciones de la tributación en un mund…
Globalization and the Future of Social Protection
Social protection in industrial countries has been provided through regulations, tax expenditures, and public spending. This paper argues that globalization will affect the governments’ ability to continue providing social protection at the level of recent decades. Specifically, tax competition among jurisdictions, ballooning electronic commerce, and increased mobility of the factors of production will likely cause significant falls in tax revenu…
Reforming the State
Countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe are entering the second decade of political transformation and economic reform. The first decade involved macroeconomic stabilization, privatization, and development of the basic institutional infrastructure of a market economy. The new policy challenges center on the nature of the social contract between citizens and their governments. These challenges include identifying the appropriate bo…
Globalization without a Net
Policies, Institutions and the Dark Side of Economics
This authoritative volume brings together Vito Tanzi’s pioneering work on institutions and the influence of the behavior of government officials and economic agents on economic decision-making.
Public Spending in the 20th Century
This book discusses the changing role of government finance in the twentieth century. It documents the enormous increase in government spending throughout the 1900s across all industrialized countries. However, the authors find that the growth of the welfare state over the past thirty-five years has not brought about much additional social and economic welfare. This suggests that public spending in industrialized countries could be much smaller t…
Globalization and the Future of Social Protection
Globalization and the Future of Social Protection
Social protection in industrial countries has been provided through regulations, tax expenditures, and public spending. This paper argues that globalization will affect governments’ ability to continue providing this social protection at the level of recent decades. Specifically, tax competition among jurisdictions, ballooning electronic commerce, and increased mobility of the factors of production will likely cause significant falls in tax reven…
Role of the State and the Quality of the Public Sector
The role of the State and the quality of the public sector
The author of this article concludes that the quality of the public sector can be assessed only against the role of the State. In general, an efficient public sector should be able to achieve the State’s objectives with the minimum degree of distortion of the market, with the lowest burden of taxation on taxpayers, with the smallest number of public employees, and with the lowest absorption of economic resources by the public sector. The public s…
Economic Policy and Equity
This book brings together the views not only of policymakers and academics but also of religious leaders and labor leaders from around the world- including the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Amartya Sen - who participated in an IMF conference on this topic. Contributors discuss the causes of growing inequality and the complex question of how to use policy to make economic systems more equitable under five headings: perspectives on economic pol…
Uses and Abuses of Estimates of the Underground Economy
Journal Article Uses and Abuses of Estimates of the Underground Economy Get access Vito Tanzi Vito Tanzi International Monetary Fund Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 109, Issue 456, 1 June 1999, Pages 338–347, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00437 Published: 25 December 2001
Corruption Around the World
Roads to Nowhere
In some countries, corrupt politicians appear to choose investment projects based on the opportunity for bribes and kickbacks these projectspresent. This paper contends that such corruption increases the numberof capital projects undertaken and trends to enlarge their size andcomplexity. The result is that, paradoxically, some public investmentcan end up reducing a country's growth
Uses and Abuses of Estimates of the Underground Economy
Journal Article Uses and Abuses of Estimates of the Underground Economy Get access Vito Tanzi Vito Tanzi International Monetary Fund Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 109, Issue 456, 1 June 1999, Pages 338–347, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00437 Published: 25 December 2001
Public sector efficiency
Globalization and the Future of Social Protection
Social protection in industrial countries has been provided through regulations, tax expenditures, and public spending. This paper argues that globalization will affect the governments’ ability to continue providing social protection at the level of recent decades. Specifically, tax competition among jurisdictions, ballooning electronic commerce, and increased mobility of the factors of production will likely cause significant falls in tax revenu…
Income distribution determinants and public spending efficiency
Fiscal disequilibrium in developing countries
Fiscal policy and economic reconstruction in Latin America
Government versus Markets
Globalization without a Net
International Coordination of Fiscal Policies
International coordination of macroeconomic policies has attracted much attention in recent years. The main issue has been whether economic performance can be improved by coordination. Although still a controversial issue, many economists have argued that coordination would make a positive contribution to economic performance. This paper deals with the requirements for successfulfiscalcoordination. It concludes that those requirements are such th…
Inflation, interest rate policy, and currency substitutions in developing economies
Fiscal policy, Keynesian economics and the mobilization of savings in developing countries
Determinants of Government Revenue Shares Among Less-Developed Countries
Journal Article Determinants of Government Revenue Shares Among Less-Developed Countries: A Comment Get access Vito Tanzi, Vito Tanzi Organization of American States. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Clayton McCuistion Clayton McCuistion The George Washington University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 77, Issue 306, 1 June 1967, Pages 40…
Determinants of Government Revenue Shares Among Less-Developed Countries
Journal Article Determinants of Government Revenue Shares Among Less-Developed Countries: A Comment Get access Vito Tanzi, Vito Tanzi Organization of American States. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Clayton McCuistion Clayton McCuistion The George Washington University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 77, Issue 306, 1 June 1967, Pages 40…
"Comparing International Tax "Burdens
Measuring the Sensitivity of the Federal Income Tax from Cross-Section Data
war Economy (Washington: Brookings Institution, 1963). [4] Jaffee, D., Credit Rationing and the Commercial Loan Market, Ph.D. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968. [5] Keynes, J. M., General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1936). [6] Lipsey, R. G., The Relation Between Unemployment and the Rate of Change of Money in the United Kingdom, 1862-1957: A Furth…
The Effect of the 1964 Revenue Act on the Sensitivity of the Federal Income Tax
From 1954 up to 1964, when Congress approved a new Revenue Act, legal structure of individual income tax of United States remained virtually unchanged. That structure was substantially changed by Revenue Act of 1964. Under previous legislation rate structure had begun at 20 per cent and had ended at 91 per cent; new rate structure started at 14 per cent and ended at 70 per cent. The first bracket, to which 20 per cent rate had applied and which h…
Fiscal policy, Keynesian economics and the mobilization of savings in developing countries
Inflation and the Personal Income Tax
Journal Article Inflation and the Personal Income Tax: An International Perspective Get access Inflation and the Personal Income Tax: An International Perspective. By Vito Tanzi. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 176. £12.50.) J. S. Flemming J. S. Flemming Nuffield College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 361, 1 March 1981, Pages 264–265, …
Inflation, interest rate policy, and currency substitutions in developing economies
Fiscal disequilibrium in developing countries
Inflation and the Personal Income Tax
1. Inflation and personal income taxation: an introduction to the main issues 2. Inflation and the real progression of the rates: problems and solutions 3. Inflation and the real progression of the rates: countries' experiences 4. Inflation and the taxation of capital gains: problems and solutions 5. Inflation and the taxation of interest income: problems and solutions 6. Inflation and the taxation of business incomes Inflation and rental incomes…
The Underground Economy in the United States
International Coordination of Fiscal Policies
International coordination of macroeconomic policies has attracted much attention in recent years. The main issue has been whether economic performance can be improved by coordination. Although still a controversial issue, many economists have argued that coordination would make a positive contribution to economic performance. This paper deals with the requirements for successfulfiscalcoordination. It concludes that those requirements are such th…
Barriers to Foreign Investment in the U.S. and Other Nations
Foreign investment has often been a controversial issue because of fears that it may become a tool for foreign influence in a country's economy. This attitude was common in Latin America and other countries, but, until recently, it was rare in the United States since this country, for much of this century, had been a net capital exporter. Recent years, however, saw a change in attitude when the United States became a net capital importer. This ar…
Fiscal policy and economic reconstruction in Latin America
The Economics of Organised Crime
This is the first book to use economic theory in the analysis of all the different aspects of organised crime: the origins, the internal organisation, market behaviour and deterrence policies. The theory of rent-seeking is adopted to help understand the origin of criminal organisations from a state of anarchy, while modern industrial organisation theory is used to explain the design of internal rules in the organised crime sector. The market beha…
Corruption, Public Investment, and Growth
Corruption, particularly political or "grand" corruption, distorts the entire decisionmaking process connected with public investment projects. The degree of distortions is higher with weaker auditing institutions. The evidence presented shows that higher corruption is associated with (i) higher public investment; (ii) lower government revenues; (iii) lower expenditures on operations and maintenance; and (iv) lower quality of public infrastructur…
Corruption Around the World
Roads to Nowhere
In some countries, corrupt politicians appear to choose investment projects based on the opportunity for bribes and kickbacks these projectspresent. This paper contends that such corruption increases the numberof capital projects undertaken and trends to enlarge their size andcomplexity. The result is that, paradoxically, some public investmentcan end up reducing a country's growth
Economic Policy and Equity
This book brings together the views not only of policymakers and academics but also of religious leaders and labor leaders from around the world- including the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Amartya Sen - who participated in an IMF conference on this topic. Contributors discuss the causes of growing inequality and the complex question of how to use policy to make economic systems more equitable under five headings: perspectives on economic pol…
Uses and Abuses of Estimates of the Underground Economy
Journal Article Uses and Abuses of Estimates of the Underground Economy Get access Vito Tanzi Vito Tanzi International Monetary Fund Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 109, Issue 456, 1 June 1999, Pages 338–347, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00437 Published: 25 December 2001
Policies, Institutions and the Dark Side of Economics
This authoritative volume brings together Vito Tanzi’s pioneering work on institutions and the influence of the behavior of government officials and economic agents on economic decision-making.
Public Spending in the 20th Century
This book discusses the changing role of government finance in the twentieth century. It documents the enormous increase in government spending throughout the 1900s across all industrialized countries. However, the authors find that the growth of the welfare state over the past thirty-five years has not brought about much additional social and economic welfare. This suggests that public spending in industrialized countries could be much smaller t…
Globalization and the Future of Social Protection
Globalization and the Future of Social Protection
Social protection in industrial countries has been provided through regulations, tax expenditures, and public spending. This paper argues that globalization will affect governments’ ability to continue providing this social protection at the level of recent decades. Specifically, tax competition among jurisdictions, ballooning electronic commerce, and increased mobility of the factors of production will likely cause significant falls in tax reven…
Role of the State and the Quality of the Public Sector
The role of the State and the quality of the public sector
The author of this article concludes that the quality of the public sector can be assessed only against the role of the State. In general, an efficient public sector should be able to achieve the State’s objectives with the minimum degree of distortion of the market, with the lowest burden of taxation on taxpayers, with the smallest number of public employees, and with the lowest absorption of economic resources by the public sector. The public s…
Economics (34 works) · Political science (23 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (17 works) · Public economics (17 works) · Business (16 works) · Economic policy (11 works) · Macroeconomics (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Market economy (9 works) · Development economics (8 works)