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We study the effect of tax policy on stock market returns in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom using … GARCH models and a unique daily dataset of legislative tax changes during the period 1 December 1978 to 31 January 2018. We … find that days of discretionary tax legislation during all stages of the process often matter for returns, both in terms of …
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We estimate the elasticities of the most important tax categories using a new quarterly database of discretionary tax … the UK, long-term tax-to-base elasticities are generally higher than short-term elasticities, whereas results for the US … close to unity. (iii) German and UK tax-to-output elasticities in the short term are lower than long-term elasticities, with …
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of tax changes on consumption and savings; and 4) the effect of tax changes on labour market activities. …
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unresponsive to taxation. Second, we look at self-reported labour supply adjustments following a recently enacted payroll tax …, as well as a substitution, effect of the tax change. Our conclusion is that effects of taxes on labour supply in Germany …
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workers by legal ones if the former are characterized by lower tax benefit ratios or if over-qualification among unauthorized …
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Does budget transparency effectively limit the use of creative accounting to circumvent fiscal rules? Through examining a Spanish reform that limited the obligation to provide regular budget information, I study the effect of relaxing transparency rules on budget forecast errors. After the...
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Using representative household surveys conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in two emerging economies, Thailand and Vietnam, we examine the relationship between inflation expectations and consumption. In both countries, our results show an insignificant relationship between expected inflation...
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This paper studies regional output asymmetries following U.S. federal tax shocks. We estimate a vector autoregressive … model for each U.S. state, utilizing the exogenous tax shock series recently proposed by Romer and Romer (2010) and find … differences in the magnitude of regional tax multipliers suggests that industry composition of output and sociodemographic …
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This paper presents a historical account of legislated tax changes in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1964 to 2010 …. Ninety-five quantitatively important pieces of tax legislation are identified and characterized along several dimensions: Tax … and timing is reported. The evolution of tax acts is described, capturing changes in tax measures and associated revenue …
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This paper empirically analyses the relationship between political leaders' socioeconomic backgrounds and public budget deficits utilising panel data on 21 OECD countries from 1980 to 2008. Building on sociological, as well as economic, research, we argue that the socioeconomic status of...
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