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Budget Deficits, Tax Incentives and Inflation : A Surprising Lesson From The 1983-84 Recovery

Feldstein, Martin - 1989

The first two years of the economic expansion that began in 1983 were unusually strong and were accompanied by better inflation performance than would have been expected on the basis of experience in past recoveries. Our evidence contradicts the popular view that the recovery was the result of a...

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Tax Policy, Housing Prices, and Housing Investment

Goulder, Lawrence H. - 1989

This paper employs a general equilibrium model to assess the effects of major components of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on the performance of housing and other industries. The model considers both short-term and long-term effects on housing demands, house values, and investment in housing. Model...

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Exchange-Rate Management Viewed as Tax Policies

Frenkel, Jacob A. - 1988

rate for all transactions. We show that the dual exchange rate policies can be usefully cast as distortionary taxes on …

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Savings Promotion, Investment Promotion, and International Competitiveness

Goulder, Lawrence H. - 1988

In an open economy, savings- and investment-promoting policies may have very different effects on the capital account and on the viability of export-oriented and import-competing industries. The nature of the effects is often ambiguous in analytical models. This paper employs a simulation model...

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Economic Efficiency in Recent Tax Reform History : Policy Reversals or Consistent Improvements?

Fullerton, Don - 1988

added significantly to business taxes. Was there any unifying theme to these tax changes, or do they represent frequent … the net effects on efficiency of each of these changes in capital income taxation. Under the new view that dividend taxes … generate improvements in efficiency. Under the old view that dividend taxes are important, however, these changes all increase …

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The Implications of Insurance for the Efficacy of Fiscal Policy

Abel, Andrew B. - 1988

individual's income risk. Redistributive taxes can be used to spread aggregate income risks across different generations The …

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Federal Deductibility of State and Local Taxes : A Test of Public Choiceby Representative Government

Lindsey, Lawrence B. - 1987

This paper considers the impact of federal deductibility on the level and composition of state and local taxes. It also …

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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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Regional Effects of Taxes in Canada : An Applied General Equilibrium Approach

Jones, Rich - 1986

regional effects of taxes. Earlier, literature on regional tax effects is reviewed and the main features of the model are … important regional features of taxes, such as taxes which are predominantly on products or industries located in particular … regions. Results suggest that regional effects of taxes can be significant, and in the Canadian case at least, do not tend to …

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Real Estate and the Tax Reform Act of 1986

Hendershott, Patric H. - 1986

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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