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We propose a model consistent with two observations. First, the tax rates adopted by different countries are generally uncorrelated with their growth performance. Second, countries that drastically reduce private incentives to invest, severely hurt their growth performance. In our model, the...
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and investment, we are able to capture many of the key empirical properties of Germany and Japan's postwar transitions …We consider a neoclassical interpretation of Germany and Japan's rapid postwar growth that relies on a catch … capital-output ratio, rising rates of investment and employment, and moderate rates of return to capital …
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We develop online survey experiments to analyze how information about inequality and taxes affects preferences for redistribution. Approximately 4,000 respondents were randomized into treatments providing interactive, customized information on U.S. income inequality, the link between top income...
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-level studies of labor supply, investment demand, and productivity growth. Our results suggest modest effects, on the order of 0 …
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A tax on investment income brings a deadweight loss even if household saving does not respond to taxes and the net rate … of return. What matters is the response of future consumption. The tax on investment income is also effectively a tax on … labor supply because current work effort produces income that will be spent on future consumption and the tax on investment …
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and investment. However, for growth, higher inequality tends to retard growth in poor countries and encourage growth in …
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This paper proposes a model of diversifiable uncertainty, irreversible investment decisions, and endogenous growth. The … mobility. Labor mobility costs reduce private returns to investment, imply a slower rate of endogenous growth, and …
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Recent studies consider public R&D spending that affects abatement knowledge and endogenous growth, distortionary taxes that affect physical and human capital formation, pollution taxes that affect environmental degradation, and regeneration that restores natural capital. Our model combines all...
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This essay discusses the reasons for and implications of the decline in real interest rates around the world over the past several decades. It suggests that the decline in interest rates is largely explicable from trends in saving, growth, and markups. In this environment, greater government...
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Following a severe contraction in the early 1990s, the Swedish economy accumulated a strong record of output growth coupled with a disappointing performance in the labor market. As of 2005, hours worked per person 20-64 years of age are 10.5 percent below the 1990 peak and a mere one percent...
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