In this article, Hassett and Viard argue that proposals to single out the five largest oil producers for disparate tax treatment based on political hostility toward those companies threatens the rule of law

Alan D. Viard reviews "Institutional Foundations of Public Finance: Economic and Legal Perspectives" by Alan J. Auerbach and Daniel N. Shaviro. In his opinion, the book is exceptionally well suited to serve as a tribute to David Bradford. The authors and discussants address the questions that...

The recent literature on the sources of economic growth has challenged the traditional growth accounting of the Solow model, which assigned a relatively limited role to capital deepening. As part of this literature, De Long and Summers have argued in two papers that the link between equipment...

In this paper, we provide a brief overview of U.S. tax policy in relation to other OECD countries and also in some cases, in relation to world averages. The U.S. tax code emerges in our analysis is exceptional in many regards. Most countries have gradually moved toward collecting a large share...