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American Banking and the Transportation Revolution Before the Civil War

Atack, Jeremy - 2014

Studies have shown a connection between finance and growth, but most do not consider how financial and real factors interact to put a virtuous cycle of economic development into motion. As the main transportation advance of the 19th century, railroads connected established commercial centers and...

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Wedges, Labor Market Behavior, and Health Insurance Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act

Gallen, Trevor - 2013

The Affordable Care Act's taxes, subsidies, and regulations significantly alter terms of trade in both goods and factor markets. We use a multi-sector (intra-national) trade model to predict and quantify consequences of the Affordable Care Act for the incidence of health insurance coverage and...

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The Marginal Excess Burden of Different Capital Tax Instruments

Fullerton, Don - 2007

Marginal excess burden, defined as the change in deadweight loss for an additional dollar of tax revenue, has been measured for labor taxes, output taxes, and capital taxes generally. This paper points out that there is no we1 1-defined way to raise capital taxes in general, because the taxation...

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Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance

Lee, David - 2019

Central to the welfare analysis of income transfer programs is the deadweight loss associated with possible reforms. To aid analytical tractability, its measurement typically requires specifying a simplified model of behavior. We employ a complementary “decomposition” approach that compares...

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The Costs of Corporate Tax Complexity

Zwick, Eric - 2018

Does tax code complexity alter corporate behavior? This paper investigates this question by focusing on the decision to claim refunds for tax losses. In a sample of 1.2M observations from the population of corporate tax returns, only 37% of eligible firms claim their refund. A simple...

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Does the Harberger Model Greatly Understate the Excess Burden of the Corporate Tax? - Another Model Says Yes

Gravelle, Jane; Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2021

An important deficiency in Harberger's (1962) model of corporate income taxation is its inability to consider both corporate and noncorporate production of the same good. This precludes analysis of within-industry substitution of noncorporate for corporate production in response to the tax. Such...

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The Theory of Excess Burden and Optimal Taxation

Auerbach, Alan J. - 2021

study of optimal tax theory. A main objective of this exercise is to uncover the interrelationships among various apparently … the effects of technology. Included in the presentation of optimal tax theory is a section on tax reform, as well as an … application of the theory to the case where uncertainty is present …

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The Usual Excess-Burden Approximation Usually Doesn'T Come Close

Goulder, Lawrence H.; Williams, Roberton C. - 2021

interactions, and consequently yields highly inaccurate assessments of excess burden. Prior economic theory implicitly acknowledges … practical alternative to the usual excess-burden approximation. This paper helps fill the gap between theory and practice. First …

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Taxation and Excess Burden : A Life-Cycle Perspective

Driffill, John; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2022

A lifetime perspective is appropriate in assessing the welfare implications of government tax policies. Although a number of attempts have been made to ex- amine the excess burden of taxation in life-cycle models, these have tended to ignore the role of human capital accumulation and/or the...

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Tax Avoidance and the Deadweight Loss of the Income Tax

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2022

The traditional method of analyzing the distorting effects of the income tax greatly underestimates its total deadweight loss as well as the incremental deadweight loss of an increase in income tax rates. Deadweight losses are substantially greater than these conventional estimates because the...

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