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This paper questions the widely accepted view that deficits have real effects in the life cycle model. Standard analyses of deficits within life cycle models treat the government as a dictatorial entity that can effect any intergenerational redistribution it desires. In contrast, this paper...
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We use the 1988 PSID to study the effects of income and wealth on transfers of money and time between individuals and … transfers are only weakly related to income differences. Richer siblings give more to parents and receive less. Among parents … in the cross section or in the analysis using siblings that parental income or wealth raises time transfers from children …
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A key input to the capital budgeting process is the cost of capital. Financial managers most often use the CAPM for estimating the cost of capital for which they need to know the market risk premium. Textbooks advocate using the historical value for the U.S. equity premium as the market risk...
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We argue that the empirical evidence against the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) based on stock returns does not invalidate its use for estimating the cost of capital for projects in making capital budgeting decisions. Since stocks are backed not only by projects in place, but also the...
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We demonstrate, using data for the period 1954-2003, that differences in exposure to consumption risk explains cross sectional differences in average excess returns (cost of equity capital) across the 25 benchmark equity portfolios constructed by Fama and French (1993). We use yearly returns on...
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The economics workings of the corporate income tax remain controversial. Harberger's seminal 1962 article viewed the … triggers the firm's classification as a corporation subject to income taxation. But going public has an upside. It permits …
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income tax produces rapid and dramatic increases in the model's level of U.S. investment, output, and real wages, making the …
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This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Arnold Harberger's celebrated model of the corporation income tax … understanding the incidence and excess burden of the corporate income tax remains in question. One difficulty confronting all …
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The 1986 Tax Reform Act, while having little effect on the overall effective tax rate on U.S. capital income, did … redistribution of income associated with the Tax Reform. We find that the 1986 Tax Reform law reduces excess burden by .85 percent of …
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An important deficiency in Harberger's (1962) model of corporate income taxation is its inability to consider both … corporation income tax. The model has two key characteristics. First, corporate and noncorporate firms produce (with identical … much larger excess burden from corporate income taxation. The incidence of the corporate tax can also differ dramatically …
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