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Hines, James R.; Horton, Emily - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Interest paid by U.S. state and local bonds is tax-exempt, making these bonds attractive to investors - though a tax rule limits arbitrage opportunities by restricting associated interest expense deductions. Prior to 1986, U.S. banks were not subject to the interest deduction limitation, making...

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Subsidies to Industry and the Environment

Kelly, David - 2009

, price supports, monopoly rights, and a variety of other subsidies. Previous work in partial equilibrium shows that subsidies … subsidies in general equilibrium. Since all resources are used, whether or not subsidies increase emissions depends on the … incentives to emit of the industry which would otherwise use the resources. Since subsidies must move resources to a less …

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Is the EITC Equivalent to an NIT? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence

Rothstein, Jesse - 2009

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is intended to encourage work. But EITC-induced increases in labor supply may drive wages down, shifting the intended transfer toward employers. I simulate the economic incidence of the EITC under a range of plausible supply and demand elasticities. In all of...

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Taxes and Health Insurance

Gruber, Jonathan - 2001

the U.S. Yet, we already provide over $100 billion per year in tax subsidies to health insurance. This paper provides an …

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Tax Credits, the Distribution of Subsidized Health Insurance Premiums, and the Uninsured

Pauly, Mark V. - 2001

This paper investigates the impact of a $1000 refundable tax credit for self-only coverage on net premiums and insurance purchases for a representative sample of potential buyers in the individual insurance market. Two methods are used to estimate the distribution of premiums: predicted premiums...

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Taxing and Subsidizing Housing Investment : The Rise and Fall of Housing's Favored Status

Hendershott, Patric H. - 2000

years, the impact of subsidies on house prices, housing consumption and tenure, and rationales for preferring one tenure …

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Investment Ramifications of Distortionary Tax Subsidies

Hines, James R, Jr - 1998

This paper examines the investment effects of tax subsidies for which some assets and not others are eligible …. Distortionary tax subsidies encourage firms to concentrate investments in tax-favored assets profitability of investment and …

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Investment Subsidies and Wages in Capital Goods Industries : To the Workers Go the Spoils?

Goolsbee, Austan - 1998

This paper looks at the impact of investment tax subsidies on the labor market for capital goods workers using data … from the 1979-88 Current Population Survey. The results show that investment subsidies drive up the wages of workers who … supply of capital goods identified in previous work and means that much of the benefit of investment subsidies is passed to …

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Balladurette and Juppette : A Discrete Analysis of Scrapping Subsidies

Adda, Jerome - 1997

This paper studies the effects of subsidies on durable goods markets. In particular, we study a recent policy in France …

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Who Did the Ethanol Tax Credit Benefit? An Event Analysis of Subsidy Incidence

Bielen, David A. - 2016

Using commodity futures contract and spot prices, we estimate the incidence of the US ethanol subsidy accruing to corn farmers, ethanol producers, gasoline blenders, and gasoline consumers at expiration in 2011. We find compelling evidence that ethanol producers captured two-thirds of the...

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