alternative fiscal policies on current consumption and saving. Studies to date have examined the response of current consumption … consumption smoothing is actually feasible. ESPlanner's saving and life insurance recommendations generate the smoothest possible … consumption/saving of low-income households for the simple reason their income tax liabilities are relatively small. And social …

the welfare loss of capital income taxation relative to the alternatives of taxing consumption and labor income.The second … technology of private investment. Government policies that discourage saving might make the Schumpeterian vision of a shift from … sharp decline in the net national saving rate-from over 8% of GDP in the U.S. in the 1970s to only 4.5% in the 1980s & from …

consumption or investment. In this way, aggregate demand would be maintained by substituting public consumption for private … consumption. A second alternative prescription was to reduce the private saving rate. Early Keynesians like Seymour Harris saw the …Three ways of averting "excess saving" have been emphasized in both theory and practice. The thrust of the Keynesian …

. We characterize a class of environments in which the tax on labor goes to zero in the long run, while the tax on capital … income may be non-zero, reversing the standard prediction of the Ramsey tax literature. The zero labor tax is an optimal long … sovereign debt constraints. The front loading of labor taxes allows the economy to build a large (aggregate) debt position in …

evidence is not as "shovel ready" as one would like. Although consumption and investment clearly respond to tax incentives and …

working relatively few (weekly) hours, for instance, suffer from a spending shock of the type we analyzed: their consumption …

outcomes and elasticities, including the responses of the labor share and the labor wedge to demand shocks and the elasticity … of output with respect to labor inputs. We also decompose changes in work hours into different margins (hours per worker …, the employment rate, and the labor force) and examine effects on local rental prices, wages, and firm entry. We compare …