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Tax Policy, Asset Prices, and Growth : A General Equilibrium Analysis

Goulder, Lawrence H. - 1987

This paper presents a multisector general equilibrium model that is capable of providing integrated assessments of the economy's short- and long- run responses to tax policy changes. The model contains an explicit treatment of firm's investment decisions according to which producers exhibit...

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Tax Policy and International Competitiveness

Summers, Lawrence H. - 1986

This paper examines the interactions between tax policy, international capitol mobility, and international competitiveness. It demonstrates that tax policies which stimulate national investment without affecting national savings must inevitably lead to deterioration in a country's trade balance...

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Are Tax Cuts Really Expansionary?

Mankiw, N. Gregory - 1984

In this paper, we re-examine the standard analysis of the short-run effect of a personal tax cut. If consumer spending generates more money demand than other components of GNP, then tax cuts may, by increasing the demand for money, depress aggregate demand. We examine a variety of evidence and...

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Tax Policy, the Rate of Return, and Savings

Summers, Lawrence H. - 1982

The theoretical and empirical results in this paper make a strong prima facie case for the proposition that increases in the after tax rate of return caused by tax policy are likely to bring forth significant increases in saving. Theoretical analysis using a variety of standard models tends to...

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Tax Policy and Corporate Investment

Summers, Lawrence H. - 1980

, however, very long. For example, it is estimated that the elimination of capital gains taxes would raise the capital stock by …

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Inflation, Taxation, and Corporate Investment : A q-Theory Approach

Summers, Lawrence H. - 1980

This paper presents an analysis of the effects of tax policy on capital accumulation and valuation based on James Tobin's q theory of investment. As Tobin has explained, aggregate investment can be expected to depend in a stable way on q, the ratio of the stock market valuation of existing...

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Tax Policy in a Life Cycle Model

Summers, Lawrence H. - 1978

This study departs from earlier analyses of the effects of taxes on capital income in several respects. Probably the …

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Gasoline Taxes and Consumer Behavior

Li, Shanjun - 2012

Gasoline taxes can be employed to correct externalities from automobile use and to raise government revenue. Our … understanding of the optimal gasoline tax and the efficacy of existing taxes is largely based on empirical analysis of consumer … responses to gasoline price changes. In this paper, we directly examine how gasoline taxes affect gasoline consumption as …

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Fuel Tax Incidence and Supply Conditions

Marion, Justin - 2011

The incidence of taxes on consumers and producers plays a central role in evaluating energy tax policy, yet the … state gasoline and diesel taxes to retail prices, and importantly we estimate the dependence of pass-through on factors … constrained, and the constraint is plausibly unrelated to shifts in demand, the pass-through rate of fuel taxes declines. We …

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Ideology, Incidence and the Political Economy of Fuel Taxes : Evidence from the California 2018 Proposition 6

Epstein, Lucas; Muehlegger, Erich - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In 2018, California voters rejected Proposition 6, a ballot initiative that sought to repeal state gasoline taxes and … transportation and energy taxes than liberal areas, heterogeneity in the response to economic burdens has important implications for … the popular support for environmental taxes and the ongoing policy debate about how to finance future road infrastructure …

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