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 …

from taxes on intermediate inputs or consumer goods, and derives a practical alternative to this formula. We use an … analytically tractable general equilibrium model to reveal how interactions with pre-existing taxes in other markets critically … affect the excess burden of new taxes on intermediate inputs or consumer goods. The usual excess-burden formula ignores these …

Higher corporate taxes reduce corporate business operations, replacing them with operations by noncorporate businesses … higher corporate taxes can increase income inequality even when the corporate tax burden falls entirely on capital owned …

percentage point of GDP increase in taxes leads to a decline in GDP by about 1.5 percentage points after 3 years. I also create … between different types of taxes (personal, corporate, indirect, and social security) and their subcomponents …

endowment shocks. The government's insurance motive generates pro-cyclical taxes on capital income. If the government could …

countries with whom Japan has agreements are entitled to claim foreign tax credits for income taxes that they would have paid to …

choices. While taxes appear to influence a wide range of activity, the literature does not offer many subtle tests designed to …