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We study the effect of tax policy on stock market returns in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom using … GARCH models and a unique daily dataset of legislative tax changes during the period 1 December 1978 to 31 January 2018. We … find that days of discretionary tax legislation during all stages of the process often matter for returns, both in terms of …
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We estimate the elasticities of the most important tax categories using a new quarterly database of discretionary tax … the UK, long-term tax-to-base elasticities are generally higher than short-term elasticities, whereas results for the US … close to unity. (iii) German and UK tax-to-output elasticities in the short term are lower than long-term elasticities, with …
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of tax changes on consumption and savings; and 4) the effect of tax changes on labour market activities. …
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unresponsive to taxation. Second, we look at self-reported labour supply adjustments following a recently enacted payroll tax …, as well as a substitution, effect of the tax change. Our conclusion is that effects of taxes on labour supply in Germany …
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Using representative household surveys conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in two emerging economies, Thailand and Vietnam, we examine the relationship between inflation expectations and consumption. In both countries, our results show an insignificant relationship between expected inflation...
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This paper studies regional output asymmetries following U.S. federal tax shocks. We estimate a vector autoregressive … model for each U.S. state, utilizing the exogenous tax shock series recently proposed by Romer and Romer (2010) and find … differences in the magnitude of regional tax multipliers suggests that industry composition of output and sociodemographic …
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This paper empirically analyses the relationship between political leaders' socioeconomic backgrounds and public budget deficits utilising panel data on 21 OECD countries from 1980 to 2008. Building on sociological, as well as economic, research, we argue that the socioeconomic status of...
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payroll tax reduction. Our results show that 55% of the respondents spend the extra money, indicating considerable potential … for tax changes to affect consumption and economic activity. Our analysis of the socio-demographic and economic … determinants of consumption responses suggests that temporary and permanent tax changes have a similar impact, that interest rates …
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In response to the recent sovereign debt crisis, the member states of the European Union agreed to enact balanced budget rules in their national legislation. However, little is known about the public's opinion of balanced budget rules. To fill this gap, we conducted a survey among 2,000...
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To analyse the interdependence between monetary and fiscal policy during a financial crisis, we develop an open-economy DSGE model with monetary and fiscal policy as well as financial markets in a continuous-time framework based on stochastic differential equations. Monetary policy is modelled...
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