The $69 billion mortgage interest deduction (MID) is often viewed as an element of the tax code that promotes middle-class prosperity. However, 64 percent of the benefits, as measured by effective tax reduction, goes to households earning more than $100,000 per year. The large variation in...

Interest rates on government debt have fallen in many countries over the last several decades, with markets indicating that rates may stay low well into the future. It is by now well understood that sustained low interest rates can change the nature of long-run fiscal policy choices. In this...

After a decade under federal control, the Belgian regions became responsible for the mortgage interest and capital deduction (MICD) in 2015. One region drastically reduced the average subsidy while another left it unaffected. Exploiting this variation in a difference in differences design, we...

This paper investigates empirically the effects of personal and corporate taxes on taxable interest rates and on the spread between taxable and tax-exempt rates. Two main sets of results emerge. First, we establish that the effective marginal investors in the Treasury bill market are households,...

This paper examines the impact of the combined U.S. state and federal mortgage interest deduction (MID) on homeownership attainment, using data from 1984 to 2007 and exploiting variation in the subsidy arising from changes in the MID within and across states over time. We test whether...

Die Zinsschranke gem. § 4h EStG bestimmt das Ausmaß, in dem betrieblich veranlasste Zinsaufwendungen bei der Ermittlung der steuerlichen Bemessungsgrundlagen berücksichtigt werden können. Das Greifen der Vorschrift begrenzt daher die Nutzung des den Zinsaufwendungen inhärenten...

This paper investigates empirically the effects of personal and corporate taxes on taxable interest rates and on the spread between taxable and tax-exempt rates. Two main sets of results emerge. First, we establish that the effective marginal investors in the Treasury bill market are households,...