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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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Our research examines empirically the age pattern of the implicit value of life revealed from workers' differential wages and job safety pairings. Although aging reduces the number of years of life expectancy, aging can affect the value of life through an effect on planned life-cycle...
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A substantial literature over the past thirty years has evaluated tradeoffs between money and fatality risks. These values in turn serve as estimates of the value of a statistical life. This article reviews more than 60 studies of mortality risk premiums from ten countries and approximately 40...
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This paper develops a life-cycle model in which workers choose both consumption levels and job fatality risks, implying that the effect of age on the value of life is ambiguous. The empirical analysis of this relationship uses novel, age-dependent fatal and nonfatal risk variables. Workers'...
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A prominent theoretical controversy in the compensating differentials literature concerns unobservable individual productivity. Competing models yield opposite predictions depending on whether the unobservable productivity is safety-related skill or productivity generally. Using five panel waves...
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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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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 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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taxes and the promulgation of new regulations …
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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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