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Households face earnings risk which is non-normal and varies by age and over the income distribution. We show that allowing for these rich features of earnings dynamics, in the context of a structurally estimated life-cycle portfolio choice model, helps to rationalize the limited participation...
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In the economic literature the fiscal burden on financial claims is usually measured by the expected tax rate. Auerbach has demonstrated that the use of this method can be seriously misleading. This paper develops a method for defining an effective tax rate adjusted for risk on uncertain...
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Many articles in the legal and economic literature claim that a pure Haig-Simons income tax cannot effectively tax investment income. This is because an investor can use leverage to gross up her investments in risky assets such that the increased gain (or loss) exactly offsets any income tax (or...
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Marginal income taxes may have an insurance effect by decreasing the effective fluctuations of after-tax individual … income. By compressing the idiosyncratic component of personal income fluctuations, higher marginal taxes should be … taxation. Our study empirically examines this negative correlation, exploiting the ample variation of state taxes across US …
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an interest-adjusted income tax is optimal. This tax leaves a riskless component of interest income tax free and taxes …
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