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Subsidies to Industry and the Environment
Kelly, David - 2009
productive use, the economy wide marginal product of emissions falls with an increase in any subsidy, tending to decrease …
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Is the EITC Equivalent to an NIT? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence
Rothstein, Jesse - 2009
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is intended to encourage work. But EITC-induced increases in labor supply may drive wages down, shifting the intended transfer toward employers. I simulate the economic incidence of the EITC under a range of plausible supply and demand elasticities. In all of...
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Taxes and Health Insurance
Gruber, Jonathan - 2001
A common prescription for reducing the number of uninsured is to increase the tax subsidization of health insurance in the U.S. Yet, we already provide over $100 billion per year in tax subsidies to health insurance. This paper provides an assessment of the past and potential impacts of taxation...
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Tax Credits, the Distribution of Subsidized Health Insurance Premiums, and the Uninsured
Pauly, Mark V. - 2001
This paper investigates the impact of a $1000 refundable tax credit for self-only coverage on net premiums and insurance purchases for a representative sample of potential buyers in the individual insurance market. Two methods are used to estimate the distribution of premiums: predicted premiums...
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Taxing and Subsidizing Housing Investment : The Rise and Fall of Housing's Favored Status
Hendershott, Patric H. - 2000
This paper surveys and interprets a wide body of literature on the taxation and subsidization of investment in owner-occupied and rental housing. Where available, the study considers experiences outside of the United States. Issues addressed include what nonneutral taxation is, how...
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Investment Ramifications of Distortionary Tax Subsidies
Hines, James R, Jr - 1998
This paper examines the investment effects of tax subsidies for which some assets and not others are eligible. Distortionary tax subsidies encourage firms to concentrate investments in tax-favored assets profitability of investment and reducing payoffs to bondholders in the event of default....
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Investment Subsidies and Wages in Capital Goods Industries : To the Workers Go the Spoils?
Goolsbee, Austan - 1998
This paper looks at the impact of investment tax subsidies on the labor market for capital goods workers using data from the 1979-88 Current Population Survey. The results show that investment subsidies drive up the wages of workers who produce capital goods relative to other manufacturing...
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Balladurette and Juppette : A Discrete Analysis of Scrapping Subsidies
Adda, Jerome - 1997
This paper studies the effects of subsidies on durable goods markets. In particular, we study a recent policy in France in which the governments of Balladur and Jupp‚ subsidized the replacement of old cars with new ones. To study this policy, we construct a dynamic stochastic discrete choice...
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Who Did the Ethanol Tax Credit Benefit? An Event Analysis of Subsidy Incidence
Bielen, David A. - 2016
Using commodity futures contract and spot prices, we estimate the incidence of the US ethanol subsidy accruing to corn … ethanol producers captured two-thirds of the subsidy, and suggestive evidence that a small portion of this benefit accrued to … or gasoline consumers captured any part of the subsidy. This paper contributes to understanding of biofuels markets and …
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Who Offers Tax-Based Business Development Incentives?
Felix, R. Alison - 2011
Many American communities seek to attract or retain businesses with tax abatements, tax credits, or tax increment financing of infrastructure projects (TIFs). The evidence for 1999 indicates that communities are most likely to offer one or more of these business development incentives if their...
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