The Hopenhayn and Rogerson (1993) framework is extended to understand how different forms of taxing capital income affect fi rms’ investment and fi nancial policies over their life cycle. Corporate income taxation slows down fi rm growth over the life cycle by reducing after-tax profi ts...

Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 1939

This dissertation consists of three independent essays in macroeconomics. The first essay studies the transition to a low carbon economy using an extension of the neoclassical growth model featuring endogenous energy efficiency, exhaustible energy and explicit climate-economy interaction. I...

Differences in the relative price of investment over consumption goods across countries are big, even after excluding non-tradable consumption goods. We interpret these differences as arising from differences in a wide range of policies that increase the cost of investment. Under this...

Neoclassical growth models require large productivity/distortion differences across countries to produce the observed disparities in the wealth of nations. In this paper I develop an otherwise very standard neoclassical model with technology adoption and schooling decisions, and show that in...