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This paper considers the impact of endogenous human capital accumulation on optimal tax policy in a life cycle model …. Including endogenous human capital accumulation, either through learning-by-doing or learning-or-doing, is analytically shown to …, then it is optimal to use a tax on capital in order to mimic such taxes. Quantitatively, introducing learning-by-doing or …
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Auerbach (1979, 1981) has demonstrated that inflation can lead to large inter-asset distortions, with the negative effects of higher inflation unambiguously declining with asset life. We show that this is true only if depreciation is treated as geometric for tax purposes. When depreciation is...
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At a macroeconomic level, infrastructure and productivity are positively correlated in the United States and other countries. However, it remains unclear whether this correlation reflects causation, and if so, whether causation runs from infrastructure to productivity, or the reverse. This paper...
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A cash-in-advance constraint on consumption is incorporated into a standard model of consumption and capital …
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capital as a function of its debt/equity ratio. Domestic and foreign investment will be interdependent, since, in competing … for finance, each affects the cost of capital in the other location. Production interactions can arise when, because of …
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A state-dependent income tax is incorporated into an intertemporal production economy. Methods are developed for establishing the existence and uniqueness of an equilibrium, and for explicitly constructing this equilibrium. Some tax-policy experiments are suggested, the results of which may have...
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This paper provides direct measures of the international mobility of long-term financial capital using interest … evidence, discussed below, indicates that long-term financial capital is as mobile across these markets as is short …-term capital. This appears to be the case both within the Euromarkets and across political jurisdictions. …
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banks starved for capital. In September 1995, the Mitsubishi Bank was permitted to issue a complicated convertible security …'s annualized risk-adjusted cost of capital through this instrument was between 80 and 310 basis points higher than if the bank had …
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One of the salient characteristics of the 1980s is the growth collapse of the Latin American debtor countries. The debt-overhang literature claims that the debt crisis is the main reason for the growth collapse. However, previous empirical work has failed to support this hypothesis. We reexamine...
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