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After exploring both the crucial role of the interest elasticity of the saving rate in the analysis of a wide variety of issues in economic - particularly tax - policy and reasons why previous studies of the effect of interest rates on consumption and saving have biased the estimated elasticity...
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Tax practitioners should identify clients with HARP and HAMP mortgage modifications since 2007 to determine if they have capitalized interest included in the principal of the new loan. This capitalized interest remains fully deductible when it is eventually paid but it is typically not being...
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This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on labor income and savings in a standard two-period life-cycle model with …
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interesting innovations and suggestions concerning how to tax international savings. We examine some of these advances, which we … then use to set forth and investigate a proposal for European and international savings taxation. That proposition combines …
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This lecture examines the effects of tax policy and social security retirement benefits on capital accumulation and economic welfare. The paper begins by examining how capital income taxes reduce the real return to savers and then discusses the welfare loss of capital income taxation relative to...
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In this survey, I summarize and evaluate the extant literature concerning taxation and personal saving. I describe the theoretical models that economists have used to depict saving decisions, and I explore the positive and normative implications of these models. The central positive question is...
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There is strong evidence about a home-court advantage in international portfolioquot; investment. One explanation for the bias is an information asymmetry between domestic andquot; foreign investors about the economic performance of domestic firms. This asymmetry causesquot; two types of...
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model which features compulsory savings accounts and transparent pricing of health services. It has achieved some of the … how tax cuts can be designed to help establish compulsory savings accounts so that a publicly funded welfare system can be … like unemployment) through the establishment of a set of compulsory savings accounts. A case study of New Zealand is used …
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