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," we estimated tax multipliers using (i) a novel dataset on value-added taxes for 51 countries (21 industrial and 30 … companion paper first shows that these findings have important policy implications, given that the initial level of taxes varies …
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We study how tax policies that lower the cost of capital impact investment and labor demand. Difference-in-differences estimates using confidential US Census Data on manufacturing establishments show that tax policies increased both investment and employment, but did not lead to wage or...
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Since 2002, the US government has encouraged business investment using accelerated depreciation policies that significantly reduce investment costs. We provide the first in-depth analysis of this stimulus on employment and earnings. Our local labor markets approach exploits cross-industry...
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2011 from the State Taxation Administration. We first document the importance of different business taxes across industries …. While corporate income taxes play an important role for manufacturing firms, these firms also remit a large share of their … tax payments through the value-added tax system, through the excise tax system and through payroll taxes. Gross receipts …
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On the identification front, our findings favor the use of narratives à la Romer and Romer (2010) to identify exogenous fiscal shocks as opposed to the identification via SVAR. On the (much less explored) measurement front, our results strongly support the use of tax rates as a true measure of...
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It is well known by now that government spending has typically been procyclical in developing economies but acyclical or countercyclical in industrial countries. Little, if any, is known, however, about the cyclical behavior of tax rates (as opposed to tax revenues, which are endogenous to the...
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This paper estimates the incidence of state corporate taxes using new data and methods for estimating the effects on … business taxes on the labor demand of incumbent firms and local productivity to identify profit effects. We estimate these …
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