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This paper is about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty. It identifies his central macroeconomic claims and examines them, arguing that the contentions are theoretically and empirically unwarranted.
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If one wants to evaluate the impact of an income tax on the value of a project or a firm the so called standard model … factor (1-s) where s is the income tax rate (assumed to be constant and deterministic). In this paper this Johannson model is … after taxes cannot hold. Then an alternative approach for incorporating an income tax into the NPV calculus is discussed …
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own tax burden and its effect on economicdecisions. Six strands of literature are discussed: (1) perception of marginal … taxrates, (2) influence of tax complexity on tax perception, (3) taxation andincentives to work, (4) tax salience, (5) tax …
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In recent contributions, Weizsäcker (2014) and Summers (2014) maintain that mature economies accumulate too much capital. They suggest large and lasting public deficits as a remedy. This paper argues that overaccumulation cannot occur in an economy with land. It presents novel data of aggregate...
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A neoclassical growth model is augmented by a corporate sector, financial intermediation, and a set of tax rates. In … this setting, capital structure is determined by the interplay between an advantage of debt finance resulting from the tax … system and a disadvantage resulting from asymmetric information and the entailed agency costs. Effects of capital tax reforms …
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-material values over material things. We incorporate this notion into a simple tax model for a small open economy. We show that a … postmaterialism are developed from the World Values Surveys. Their impact on the tax mix is highly significant and goes into the …
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Macroeconomic studies of tax policy in dynamic general equilibrium usually assume that reforms hit the economy … corporate tax cut, for example, is estimated to be around 10 percent of the total gain from the reform. We show that adjustment … reform comes expected or not. We are also able to demonstrate a genuine welfare gain from temporary tax cuts. Impulse …
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, agency costs and tax benefits of corporate debt are equalizing each other, which renders an institutionally based explanation …
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This paper employs a stochastic endogenous growth model with productive government expenditure to analyze the macroeconomic effects of income taxation. We demonstrate that in the presence of capital and income risk the impact of taxation on consumption choice as well as on economic growth is...
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Das Papier untersucht die durch eine Europäische Währungsunion zu erwartenden Änderungen der Geldschöpfungsgewinne der Mitgliedsländer. Dazu werden die zwischen 1980 und 1995 erzielten einzelstaatlichen Geldschöpfungsgewinne nach dem monetären und dem Opportunitätskostenkonzept...
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