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We propose a model consistent with two observations. First, the tax rates adopted by different countries are generally uncorrelated with their growth performance. Second, countries that drastically reduce private incentives to invest, severely hurt their growth performance. In our model, the...
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, progressive taxation as well as investment and output subsidies to the entrepreneurial sector …
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In this paper, we summarize recent advances in the study of effects of tax policy on the fixed investment decisions of … long-run tax policy that favors business investment spending …
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-human capital falls to approximately its initial net of tax level, and steady-state human capital investment plans are therefore …
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This paper develops and tests the hypothesis that accounting rules mitigate the effect of tax policy on firm investment … incentives that do and do not affect them. Investment tax credits, which do affect accounting profits, have larger effects on … investment than accelerated depreciation, which does not. This difference in estimated effects is not obviously driven by …
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we link to private investment across 70 provinces. To formally explore these data we expand an established theory of … asymmetric substate conflict –the “information-centric” model, adding firms, investment, taxation and predation (i ….e., extortionary violence by rebels in response to investment) to the interplay of government, rebels and civilians, generating …
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these two views of dividend taxation. By extending Tobin's quot;qquot; theory of investment to incorporate taxes at both the … views may be tested by comparing the performance of investment equations estimates under each theory's predict ions. British … will have no impact on corporate investment decisions. This paper develops econometric tests which distinguish between …
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This paper derives analytical measures of the combined effects of tax changes and adjustment costs on investment and …
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The evidence presented in this study confirms that tax-induced changes in the profitability of investment have had a … powerful effect on the share of GNP devoted to nonresidential fixed investment. More specifically, we have reestimated two … models of aggregate investment initially presented in Feldstein, "Inflation, Tax Rules and Investment: Some Econometric …
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Recent theoretical approaches have linked shifts in firms' internal funds and investment spending, holding constant … underlying investment opportunities. An important impediment to convincing tests of these models is the lack of firm-level data …) in the 1930s, to identify firms' relative cost of internal and external funds and analyze its effect on firms' investment …
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