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How did the 2003 dividend tax cut affect stock prices?

Amromin, Eugene; Harrison, Paul; Sharpe, Steven - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2006

We test the hypothesis that the 2003 dividend tax cut boosted U.S. stock prices and thus lowered the cost of equity. Using an event- study methodology, we attempt to identify an aggregate stock market effect by comparing the behavior of U.S. common stock prices to that of European stocks and...

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Can the benefits principle be applied to state-local taxation of business?

Oakland, William H.; Testa, William A. - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 1998

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Estate taxation, entrepreneurship, and wealth

Cagetti, Marco; Nardi, Mariacristina De - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2007

We study the effects of abolishing estate taxation in a quantitative and realistic framework that includes the key … inequality. We use our model to estimate effective estate taxation. We consider various tax instruments to reestablish fiscal … balance when abolishing estate taxation. We find that abolishing estate taxation would not generate large increases in …

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Tax riots

Bassetto, Marco; Phelan, Christopher - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2006

This paper considers an optimal taxation environment where household income is private information, and the government …

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A benefits principle approach to state-local business taxation: policies for Midwestern growth and development

Testa, William A.; Oakland, William H. - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 1996

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Impact of retail taxes on the Illinois-Indiana border

William Lilley, III; DeFranco, Laurence J. - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 1996

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Where we stand--1996: business tax competitiveness among the Great Lakes States

Papke, James A. - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 1996

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The tradeoff between mortgage prepayments and tax-deferred retirement savings

Amromin, Eugene; Huang, Jennifer; Sialm, Clemens - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2006

We show that a significant number of households can perform a tax arbitrage by cutting back on their additional mortgage payments and increasing their contributions to tax- deferred accounts (TDA). Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, we show that about 38% of U.S. households that...

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Taxation, entrepreneurship, and wealth

Cagetti, Marco; Nardi, Mariacristina De - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2006

businesses from the negative effects of estate taxation, minimizing the aggregate costs of redistribution. Abolishing the current …

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The optimal mix of taxes on money, consumption and income

Fiore, Fiorella De; Teles, Pedro - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2002

We determine the optimal combination of taxes on money, consumption and income in transactions technology models where exogenous government expenditures must be financed with distortionary taxes. We show that the optimal policy does not tax money, regardless of whether the government can use as...

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