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. We characterize a class of environments in which the tax on labor goes to zero in the long run, while the tax on capital …
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We document how a plant-specific shock to investment opportunities at one plant of a firm ("treated plant") spills over to other plants of the same firm--but only if the firm is financially constrained. While the shock triggers an increase in investment and employment at the treated plant, this...
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We study the dynamic taxation of capital and labor in the Ramsey model under the assumption that taxes and public good … viewpoint of the citizens involves long-run capital taxation …
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We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian …
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We establish an important role for the firm by studying capital reallocation decisions of mutual fund firms. At least … 30% of the value mutual fund managers add can be attributed to the firm's role in efficiently allocating capital amongst …
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We compare Laffer curves for labor and capital taxation for the US, the EU-14 and individual European countries, using … US can increase tax revenues by 30% by raising labor taxes and by 6% by raising capital income taxes. For the EU-14 we … obtain 8% and 1%. Dynamic scoring for the EU-14 shows that 54% of a labor tax cut and 79% of a capital tax cut are self …
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information technology and the computer age, induced firms to shift away from labor and toward capital. The lower price of … influencing factor shares such as increasing profits, capital-augmenting technology growth, and the changing skill composition of …
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We investigate the role of dynamic production inputs and their associated adjustment costs in shaping the dispersion of … total factor productivity (TFP) and static measures of capital misallocation within a country. Using data on 5 … between productivity volatility and the dispersion of the marginal revenue product of capital (static capital misallocation …
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We study capital misallocation within and across 10 African countries using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys. First … product of capital (MPK), implying that countries could produce significantly more with the same aggregate capital stock if … capital were allocated optimally. Such variation differs from country to country with some African countries (success stories …
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of substitution between capital and labor less than one. This is inconsistent with the Uzawa Growth Theorem. We extend … Uzawa's theorem to show that the introduction of human capital accumulation in the standard way does not resolve the puzzle …. However, balanced growth is possible if schooling is endogenous and capital is more complementary with schooling than with raw …
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