and income taxes; (b) make wealth taxes less efficient relative to capital income taxes, at given rates of tax; (c) reduce …

Income taxes are typically set to raise revenues and redistribute income at the lowest possible efficiency costs, which … result from the distortions in individual behaviors that taxes entail. Individuals can respond along many margins, such as … labor supply, tax avoidance and evasion, and geographic mobility. But one margin that taxes may affect -- innovation -- is …

use to think about income and estate taxes. To that end, I run large-scale online surveys and experiments on … to taxes: efficiency effects, distributional implications, and fairness considerations. But they also elicit broader … concerns that could influence policy views, such as misperceptions, views of government, perceived spillovers from taxes, and …

structural vector autoregressions show that lower taxes and higher government purchases can boost output, it is difficult to …

combination of a drop in total factor productivity (TFP) during 1990-92 and of increases in taxes on labor and consumption and …

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 …

and quantify the optimal policies. Simpler innovation policies, such as linear R&D subsidies and linear profit taxes, lead …