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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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This paper studies the coevolution of the fall in the US corporate sector labor share and the rise of business activity in tax-preferred, pass-through form. Reallocating activity to the form it would have taken prior to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 accounts for one third of the decline in the...
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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 uses an event study approach to estimate the effect of capital gains taxation on realizations at the state level, and then develops a framework for determining revenue-maximizing rates at the federal level. We find that the elasticity of revenues with respect to the tax rate over a...
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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 …
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