Journal article · 2024

Microfounded Tax Revenue Forecast Model with Heterogeneous Population and Genetic Algorithm Approach

Ariel Alexi, Teddy Lazebnik and Labib Shami

Computational Economics 63(5), 1705–1734

Summary

An agent-based model of consumers and businesses with heterogeneous attributes, whose decisions evolve through a genetic algorithm, used to forecast local tax revenues and evaluate taxation policies. It is tested against a small village's recorded tax data.

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Research theme

The non-observed economy

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