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Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2019

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...

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Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods : Long Run Evidence from Tanzania

Michaels, Guy - 2017

neighborhood are more orderly and their buildings have larger footprint areas and are more likely to have multiple stories, as well …

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Neighborhood Racial Characteristics, Credit History, and Bankcard Credit in Indian Country

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina P. - 2017

, we find that residing in a predominantly American Indian neighborhood is ceteris paribus associated with lower awarded … bankcard credit limits than residing in a neighborhood where the share of American Indian residents is low. We further find … than racial composition of the consumer's neighborhood, and that the awarded bankcard credit limits do not depend on the …

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Distinctively Different : A New Approach to Valuing Architectural Amenities

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Holman, Nancy - 2021

We propose a method to estimate the capitalized value of the architectural design quality of a neighbourhood. Our …

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Tax Base Erosion and Inequity from Michigan's Assessment Growth Limit : The Case of Detroit

Hodge, Timothy R. - 2013

In this paper we examine the degree to which Michigan's property value assessment growth cap has eroded the tax base and created substantial differences in effective tax rates among residential properties within the City of Detroit. While the analysis focuses on a specific city with significant...

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Welfare Cost of the Real Estate Transfer Tax

Buettner, Thiess - 2017

This paper considers the welfare implications of a tax on real estate transfers. A theoretical analysis shows how the discouragement of mutually beneficial transactions as well as tax-sheltering activities give rise to a welfare loss that can be estimated comprehensively from the empirical...

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Feldstein Meets George : Land Rent Taxation and Socially Optimal Allocation in Economies with Environmental Externality

Dao, Thang Nguyen - 2018

We consider an overlapping generations (OLG) economy with land as a fixed factor of production and an environmental externality on production in which tax revenue from land rent and/or from other schemes such as labor income, capital income, and production taxation can be used for environmental...

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Financing Public Capital Through Land Rent Taxation : A Macroeconomic Henry George Theorem

Mattauch, Linus; Siegmeier, Jan; Edenhofer, Ottmar; … - 2021

Financing productive public capital through distortionary taxes typically creates a trade-off: the optimal investment is determined as a compromise between efficiency-enhancing public investment and perturbing market efficiency, but is never socially optimal. In contrast, such a trade-off can...

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Assessing the Distributional Effects of Housing Taxation in Italy : From the Actual Tax Code to Imputed Rent

Pellegrino, Simone; Piacenza, Massimiliano; Turati, Gilberto - 2021

The presence of extensive housing subsidies characterises the current tax systems as inefficient. In this paper, we study whether inefficiency is the price to be paid to improve equity, by assessing the actual distributive impact of housing taxation on Italian households. We concentrate on the...

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Optimal Commodity Taxation When Land and Structures Must Be Taxed at the Same Rate

Aura, Saku; Davidoff, Thomas - 2021

We show that the optimal property tax rate rises with the ratio of land rents to structure and land development costs. California's high ratio of income to property tax revenue and the distribution of Federal housing subsidies thus appear geographically misplaced. Proportional taxation of...

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