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Tax Policy, Asset Prices, and Growth : A General Equilibrium Analysis

Goulder, Lawrence H. - 1987

This paper presents a multisector general equilibrium model that is capable of providing integrated assessments of the economy's short- and long- run responses to tax policy changes. The model contains an explicit treatment of firm's investment decisions according to which producers exhibit...

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Tax Policy and International Competitiveness

Summers, Lawrence H. - 1986

This paper examines the interactions between tax policy, international capitol mobility, and international competitiveness. It demonstrates that tax policies which stimulate national investment without affecting national savings must inevitably lead to deterioration in a country's trade balance...

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Are Tax Cuts Really Expansionary?

Mankiw, N. Gregory - 1984

In this paper, we re-examine the standard analysis of the short-run effect of a personal tax cut. If consumer spending generates more money demand than other components of GNP, then tax cuts may, by increasing the demand for money, depress aggregate demand. We examine a variety of evidence and...

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Tax Policy, the Rate of Return, and Savings

Summers, Lawrence H. - 1982

The theoretical and empirical results in this paper make a strong prima facie case for the proposition that increases in the after tax rate of return caused by tax policy are likely to bring forth significant increases in saving. Theoretical analysis using a variety of standard models tends to...

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Tax Policy and Corporate Investment

Summers, Lawrence H. - 1980

, however, very long. For example, it is estimated that the elimination of capital gains taxes would raise the capital stock by …

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Inflation, Taxation, and Corporate Investment : A q-Theory Approach

Summers, Lawrence H. - 1980

This paper presents an analysis of the effects of tax policy on capital accumulation and valuation based on James Tobin's q theory of investment. As Tobin has explained, aggregate investment can be expected to depend in a stable way on q, the ratio of the stock market valuation of existing...

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Tax Policy in a Life Cycle Model

Summers, Lawrence H. - 1978

This study departs from earlier analyses of the effects of taxes on capital income in several respects. Probably the …

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The Macroeconomics of Border Taxes

Barbiero, Omar - 2018

We analyze the dynamic macroeconomic effects of border adjustment taxes, both when they are a feature of corporate tax … reform (C-BAT) and for the case of value added taxes (VAT). Our analysis arrives at the following main conclusions. First, C …. Lastly, border taxes increase government revenues in periods of trade deficit, however, given the net foreign asset position …

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Efficient Fiscal Policy and Amplification

Aguiar, Mark - 2005

endowment shocks. The government's insurance motive generates pro-cyclical taxes on capital income. If the government could …

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Fiscal Devaluations

Farhi, Emmanuel - 2011

We show that even when the exchange rate cannot be devalued, a small set of conventional fiscal instruments can robustly replicate the real allocations attained under a nominal exchange rate devaluation in a dynamic New Keynesian open economy environment. We perform the analysis under...

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