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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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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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This paper estimates the incidence of state corporate taxes on the welfare of workers, landowners, and firm owners using variation in state corporate tax rates and apportionment rules. We develop a spatial equilibrium model with imperfectly mobile firms and workers. Firm owners may earn profits...
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We study the effects of corporate taxes on income inequality. Using state corporate taxes as a setting, we provide … evidence that corporate tax cuts lead to increases in income inequality. This result is robust across regression, matching, and … synthetic controls approaches, and to controlling for a host of potential confounders. We use Statistics of Income data from the …
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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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We study a Chinese policy that awards substantial tax cuts to firms with R&D investment over a threshold or “notch.” Quasi-experimental variation and administrative tax data show a significant increase in reported R&D that is partly driven by firms relabeling expenses as R&D. Structural...
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