Because of differences in accrued gains and investors' tax-sensitivity, capital gains "lock-in" varies across mutual funds even for the same stock at the same time. Using this variation, we show that tax lock-in affects funds' governance decisions. Higher tax lock-in decreases the likelihood a...

After the Global Financial Crisis a controversial rush to fiscal austerity followed in many countries. Yet research on the effects of austerity on macroeconomic aggregates was and still is unsettled, mired by the difficulty of identifying multipliers from observational data. This paper...

According to the data of the federal Treasury, in January–August 2014 federal budget revenues rose by 0.9 p.p. of GDP as compared to the respective period of the previous year; within 7 months of 2014 the revenues of the consolidated budget of constituent entities of the Russian Federation...

Thomas Piketty's monumental Capital in the Twenty-First Century has transported us to a higher understanding of historical movements in inequality. This essay ranks the promise of different paths that scholars can usefully follow from the point to which his book has guided us. The main path to...

According to the data provided by the Federal Treasury of Russia, in H1 2014 federal budget revenues kept growing and accounted for 21.1% of GDP, gaining 1.1 p.p. of GDP over the level observed during the corresponding period of the previous year. At the same time, during the period between...

According to the data provided by the Federal Treasury of Russia, federal budget revenues gained 0.6 p.p. of GDP during the period of January to July 2014 relative to the corresponding period of the previous year; likewise, consolidated budget revenues of the constituent territories of the...

According to the preliminary data of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, on the basis of the results of January 2015 the federal budget revenues fell by 0.8 p.p. of GDP, while the expenditures rose by 14.0 p.p. of GDP as compared to the same period of the previous year. The annual...

A principal reason that losses from catastrophic risks have been increasing over time is that more individuals and firms are locating in harm's way while not taking appropriate protective measures. Several behavioural biases lead decision-makers not to invest in adaptation measures until after...

The spending obligations and revenue sources of colonial New Jersey’s provincial government for the years 1704 through 1775 are reconstituted using forensic accounting techniques from primary sources. Such has not been done previously for any British North American colony. These data are used...

We contribute to the literature on tax multipliers by analyzing the pitfalls in identification and measurement of tax shocks. Our main focus is on disentangling the discussion regarding the identification of exogenous tax policy shocks (i.e., changes in tax policy that are not the result of...