This paper implements a variety of robust, regression-based diagnostics to nonlinear models of effective federal individual income tax.

This paper proposes a method of estimating marginal tax rates using nonparametric regression techniques, and the income and tax data obtained from the Individual Tax Model Files. Our method yields estimates of average marginal effective tax rates on personal income which are significantly...

This paper extends the infinitely repeated tariff lobbying game of Pecorino [8] to allow for imperfect monitoring, and revisits the question of how an industry's ability to maintain a cooperative outcome is affected by the number of firms in the industry. The paper demonstrated that Pecorino [8]...

Do well-functioning stock markets and banks promote long-run economic growth? Recent studies answer this important question in the affirmative. This paper presents a reasonable extreme bounds analysis of the empirical relationships between the financial system and economic growth as well as the...