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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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We study the effects of tax laws on foreign direct investment (FDI) and direct investment abroad (DIA), distinguishing in each case between investment financed by retained earnings and investment financed by transfers from abroad. We find that tax policy, through its effect on the rate-of-return...
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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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maximizing the property's depreciation tax shelter net of all capital gain taxes and transaction costs.This paper develops a …
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structural vector autoregressions show that lower taxes and higher government purchases can boost output, it is difficult to …
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combination of a drop in total factor productivity (TFP) during 1990-92 and of increases in taxes on labor and consumption and …
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accounted for by the evolution of taxes in an otherwise standard neoclassical growth model. Although taxes play a crucial role …, we cannot argue that taxes drive all of the movements in hours worked. In particular, the model underpredicts the large …
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By preemptive austerity, we mean a policy that increases taxes to deter potential rollover crises. The policy is so … eliminates the danger. Mechanically, high taxes make the safe zone in the model -- the set of sovereign debt levels for which the … reduce the level of debt to a point where, asymptotically, high taxes are no longer necessary …
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