This brief assesses the effect of a capital gains tax cut on firms' decisions to undertake new investment projects and the possible effect of such projects on economic growth and employment. The authors' analysis takes into account such factors as projects' degree of uncertainty, investors'...

Congress currently is considering changes in the capital gains tax, including reducing the rate, indexing the rate to inflation, or some combination of reduction and indexing. These changes have been advocated on the grounds that a cut in the rate will stimulate investment and economic growth....

This study investigates whether expected economic growth is associated with corporate tax planning. We predict that higher expected economic growth increases the net present value of tax planning opportunities and thus increases investment in tax planning. Consistent with our prediction, we find...

A free market economy is characterized by an unequal distribution of income, wealth, and opportunities, to the extent that a considerable part of the population does not enjoy the wellbeing which an affluent society can offer. Recent studies have shown that excessive inequality is bad not only...

Italy's growth performance has been lacklustre in the last two decades. The economy has a low R&D intensity; firms are smaller and less likely to grow or exit than firms in other advanced countries; the shadow economy is large. I show how these features arise simultaneously in a Schumpeterian...

This paper adds a credit services sector into a monetary endogenous growth economy in order to investigate the inflation-growth effect. We compare this economy to more standard models with respect to the effect of the money / credit exchange technology. We find a markedly negative effect of...

Worldwide protests against the perceived lack of economic opportunity and failure of governance have refocused attention on the need for inclusive growth and strong institutions. In developing countries, large informal economies limit state capacity to deliver governance and strong institutions,...