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This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax incentives. Tax-induced differences in pretax returns encourage the use of trade credit to reallocate capital from firms facing low tax rates to those facing high tax rates. Evidence from the...
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Perhaps the most important change of the last century was the great expansion of life itself -- in the US alone, life expectancy increased from 48 to 78 years. Recent economic estimates confirm this claim, finding that the economic value of the gain in longevity was on par with the value of...
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of 2007 as its only impulse - produces time series for aggregate labor usage, consumption, investment, and real GDP that … closely resemble actual U.S. time series. Despite having no explicit financial market, the model has investment fall steeply …
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This paper evaluates evidence of the impact of outbound foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic investment rates …. OECD countries with high rates of outbound FDI in the 1980s and 1990s exhibited lower domestic investment than other … countries, which suggests that FDI and domestic investment are substitutes. U.S. time series data tell a very different story …
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investment biases. Our estimates suggest that selection of women into the labor market has changed sign, from negative to … positive, or at least that positive selectivity bias has come to overwhelm investment bias. The estimates also explain why … wage gap closure to changing selectivity and investment biases, rather than relative increases in women's earning potential …
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This paper examines the investment effects of tax subsidies for which some assets and not others are eligible …. Distortionary tax subsidies encourage firms to concentrate investments in tax-favored assets profitability of investment and …, which in turn discourages investment. Borrowing rates react so strongly that aggregate investment may rise very little, or …
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the end of 2007 as its only impulse - produces time series for aggregate labor usage, consumption, investment, and real … financial market - has investment fall steeply during the recession not because of any distortions with the supply of capital …
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The taxation of corporate assets is well understood to influence investment and firm valuation. This paper explores the … incentives than those implied by the usual static analysis. Simulation results suggest that investment is sensitive to future tax …
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We present a model of efficient regulation along the lines of Demsetz (1967). In this model, setting up and running regulatory institutions takes a fixed cost, and therefore jurisdictions with larger populations affected by a given regulation are more likely to have them. Consistent with the...
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Harberger triangles are used to calculate the efficiency costs of taxes, government regulations, monopolistic practices … evaluation of deadweight loss estimates led to new theories of rent-seeking and other inefficiencies of economies with multiple …
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