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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 …
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, marginal and intra-marginal taxation, and the level of government consumption. Conventional accounting measures of "taxes …
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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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We use a new dataset consisting of the universe of Greek corporate tax returns matched to financial statements to study a voluntary tax compliance program for small firms. This "self-assessment" program prescribed target taxable profit margins for different types of activity. Firms that reported...
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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 …
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Tax policies are a wide array of tools, commonly used by governments to influence the economy. In this paper, we review the many margins through which tax policies can affect innovation, the main driver of economic growth in the long-run. These margins include the impact of tax policy on i) the...
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levels by increasing taxes, so either an adjustment to fiscal spending or monetary policy must occur to stabilize debt. We …
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--government spending and changes in tax policy--and map the news processes into standard DSGE models. We identify news concerning taxes …
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econometrician's information sets in estimated VARs. Economically meaningful shocks to taxes, therefore, cannot be extracted from …
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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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