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The paper provides estimates of the long-run, tax-adjusted, user cost elasticity of capital (UCE) in a small open … semi-elasticity of the stock of M and E with respect to the METR is about -0.2, suggesting, for example, that a 5 …
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This paper quantifies the variability of tax elasticities in Lithuania using two alternative methods: rolling regressions and pooled mean group estimator. The analysis is motivated by the systematic variation of tax revenues observed over the economic cycle in the recent past. Both methods...
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as a mechanism for smoothing household consumption following negative aggregate shocks. Our results suggest that mortgage …
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Historically high household debt in several economies is calling for a deleveraging, but according to some economists …, this paper finds evidence of a negative relationship between changes of household debt-to-income ratios and saving rates … suggest that the economic cost associated with household deleveraging may be overestimated and motivate a deleveraging via …
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forecasters, household and business surveys, and the market for Treasury inflation protected securities (TIPS) to estimate long …
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. Supply-side drivers, valuation, household debt, and financial conditions jointly play a key role in forecasting house price …-level data, we identify households vulnerable to potential housing shocks and assess the riskiness of household debt …
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deteriorating household balance sheets? This paper examines the question using household data from the United States. It compares … the responsiveness of household consumption to monetary policy shocks in the pre- and post-crisis periods, relating … changes in monetary transmission to changes in household indebtedness and liquidity. The results show that the responsiveness …
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The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the period 1991 - 2009, the results suggest that structural...
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This paper assesses a possible explanation for the global downward trend in top personal income tax rates over the last decades: globalization and the related tax evasion and avoidance opportunities could have raised elasticities of taxable income, which would imply lower optimal tax rates. The...
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