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Temptation and taxation with elastic labor
Tran, Chung - In: Economic modelling 70 (2018), pp. 351-369
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Quantitative Implications of the Home Bias : Foreign Underinvestment, Domestic Oversaving, and Corrective Taxation
Razin, Assaf - 2008
There is strong evidence about a home-court advantage in international portfolioquot; investment. One explanation for the bias is an information asymmetry between domestic andquot; foreign investors about the economic performance of domestic firms. This asymmetry causesquot; two types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774918
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Channeling Domestic Savings into Productive Investment Under Asymmetric Information : The Essential Role of Foreign Direct Investment
Razin, Assaf - 2014
countries with insufficiently developed capital markets. This paper analyzes the problem of channeling domestic savings into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752887
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Taxation and Saving
Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2022
In this survey, I summarize and evaluate the extant literature concerning taxation and personal saving. I describe the theoretical models that economists have used to depict saving decisions, and I explore the positive and normative implications of these models. The central positive question is...
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Income Tax Incentives to Promote Saving
Becker, Charles; Fullerton, Don - 2022
We examine six alternative plans which might be discussed in an effort to increase consumer savings through the … personal income tax system in the United States. These plans attempt to affect savings through an increase in the real rate of … return either by direct tax cuts on savings or by indexing tax rates against inflation. The paper presents estimates of …
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Consumption and precautionary saving : an empirical analysis under both financial and environmental risks
Baiardi, Donatella; Manera, Matteo; Menegatti, Mario - In: Economic modelling 30 (2013), pp. 157-166
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Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance
Hubbard, R. Glenn - 2011
Microdata studies of household saving often find a significant group in the population with virtually no wealth, raising concerns about heterogeneity in motives for saving. In particular, this heterogeneity has been interpreted as evidence against the life-cycle model of saving. This paper...
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Firm-Related Risk and Precautionary Saving Response
Fagereng, Andreas - 2017
response to earnings risk based on Euler equation estimates. To address endogeneity problems, we use Norwegian administrative …
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How Important is Precautionary Saving?
Carroll, Christopher D.; Samwick, Andrew A. - 2021
We estimate the fraction of the wealth of a sample of PSID respondents that is held because some households face greater income uncertainty than others. We first derive an equation characterizing the theoretical relationship between wealth and uncertainty in a buffer-stock model of saving. Next,...
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Approximation Bias in Linearized Euler Equations
Paxson, Christina H.; Ludvigson, Sydney C. - 2021
(and the coefficient of relative risk aversion) from regressions of consumption growth on uncertainty in consumption growth … imply estimates of prudence and risk aversion that are unrealistically low. Using numerical solutions to a fairly standard …
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