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This paper characterizes the dynamic effects of shocks in government spending and taxes on economic activity in the … the automatic response of taxes and spending to activity, and, by implication, to infer fiscal shocks. The results … negative effect. The multipliers for both spending and tax shocks are typically small. Turning to the effects of taxes and …
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and income taxes; (b) make wealth taxes less efficient relative to capital income taxes, at given rates of tax; (c) reduce …
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In contrast to the conventional wisdom, real estate activity in the aggregate is not disfavored by the 1986 Tax Act. Within the broad aggregate, however, widely different impacts are to be expected. Regular rental and commercial activity will be slightly disfavored, while historic and old...
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Windfall profits and losses accrue to investors only when expected after-tax returns or discount rates change, and major tax policy shifts are likely to alter these variables. This study introduces a cashflow valuation model for estimating the windfalls to owners of U.S. nonfinancial...
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loss of deductibility of property taxes -- on owner-occupied housing in the aggregate. However, this housing will generally …
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incentives and marginal tax rates would tend to lower before-tax interest rates, and lower taxes on existing corporate capital …
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maximizing the property's depreciation tax shelter net of all capital gain taxes and transaction costs.This paper develops a …
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aggregate saving, real pretax interest rates rise by nearly two percentage points. Corporate profit taxes decline by 60 percent …
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This paper develops a perfect foresight general equilibrium simulation model of life cycle savings that may be used to investigate the potential impact of a wide range of government policies on national savings and economic welfare. The model can provide quantitative answers to a number of...
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In economic analyses of the effects of tax policies, one commonly encounters discussions of the equivalence of apparently different policies, where equivalence is defined as the policies having the same impact on fundamental economic outcomes. These related tax policies may differ in many...
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