The differences in Canadian and US aggregate savings rates do not appear to be attributable to the Registered Retirement Savings Plan program in Canada.

Our paper extends the capital tax competition literature by incorporating heterogeneous capital and agglomeration. Our model nests the standard tax competition model as well as the special case in which there is agglomeration but no firm/capital heterogeneity and the opposite case, firm...

While economists have analyzed consumption, income and (impersonal) real property taxation, relatively little research has been conducted on the effects of a personal net wealth tax or capital levies or capital transfer taxation, all of which are the subject of this paper. The conventional...

There is a gap between the predictions of capital tax competition models and the reality they purport to describe. In a standard capital-tax model, with head taxes, capital-importing regions tax capital and capital-exporting regions subsidize capital. In the real-world, competing regions appear...

We present a measure of the correlation between the education levels of spouses based on a bivariate ordered probit model. The change in this correlation over time can be measured while controlling for the large changes in the educational attainment levels. The model is estimated with data from...

Governments around the world operate personal income tax systems but most governments go to considerable lengths to mitigate the distortions caused by the interest tax component of the income tax. A popular antidote is the tax deferred savings plan, TDSP, (e.g., RRSP in Canada or 401(k) in the...

A model of tax competition in which firms earn rents is described. The size of these rents, coupled with the degree to which the firms are foreign-owned, determine the equilibrium tax rates. The existence of rents significantly alters some generally accepted results involving the possibility of...

The authors extend Deaton's atemporal optimal commodity tax model to a life-cycle environment in which the individual may choose to work in many periods. The authors are able to confirm the Corlett-Hague intuition--goods that are more complementary with leisure should be taxed at higher rates....