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Tax Policy and Consumer Spending : Evidence from Japanese Fiscal Experiments

Watanabe, Katsunori - 1999

This paper studies the extent to which the impact of tax policy on consumer spending differs between temporary and permanent, as well as anticipated and unanticipated tax changes. To discriminate between them, we use institutional information such as legal distinction between temporary and...

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Tax Structure and Government Behavior : Implications for Tax Policy

Gordon, Roger H. - 1999

desirable directions, but it also makes Pigovian taxes on negative externalities less effective …

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Taxation and Saving

Bernheim, B. Douglas - 1999

In this survey, I summarize and evaluate the extant literature concerning taxation and personal saving. I describe the theoretical models that economists have used to depict saving decisions, and I explore the positive and normative implications of these models. The central positive question is...

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The Usual Excess-Burden Approximation Usually Doesn't Come Close

Goulder, Lawrence H. - 1999

from taxes on intermediate inputs or consumer goods, and derives a practical alternative to this formula. We use an … analytically tractable general equilibrium model to reveal how interactions with pre-existing taxes in other markets critically … affect the excess burden of new taxes on intermediate inputs or consumer goods. The usual excess-burden formula ignores these …

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Transfer Motives and Tax Policy

Kaplow, Louis - 1999

This paper considers the optimal tax treatment of voluntary transfers to individuals in a" framework that integrates redistributive income taxation and estate and gift taxation. Under this" formulation, redistributive considerations become secondary. The optimal tax treatment of" transfers...

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General Equilibrium Cost Benefit Analysis of Education and Tax Policies

Heckman, James J. - 1999

This paper formulates and estimates an open-economy overlapping generation general-equilibrium model of endogenous heterogeneous human capital in the form of schooling and on-the-job training. Physical capital accumulation is also analyzed. We use the model to explain rising wage inequality in...

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Taxes and the Quality of Capital

Goolsbee, Austan - 1998

This paper shows that tax policy toward investment, by changing the relative prices of capital varieties, can have a direct effect on the quality of capital goods that firms purchase. The empirical results indicate that this impact is economically important and readily apparent in disaggregated...

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"Tax Sparing" and Direct Investment in Developing Countries

Hines, James R, Jr - 1998

countries with whom Japan has agreements are entitled to claim foreign tax credits for income taxes that they would have paid to …

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Capital Gains Tax Rules, Tax Loss Trading and Turn-of-the-Year Returns

Poterba, James M. - 1998

This paper investigates the effect of specific features of the U.S. capital gains tax on turn-of-the-year stock returns. It focuses on two tax changes. The first, enacted in 1969, reduced the fraction of long-term losses that were deductible from Adjusted Gross Income from 100 percent to 50...

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Investment Ramifications of Distortionary Tax Subsidies

Hines, James R, Jr - 1998

This paper examines the investment effects of tax subsidies for which some assets and not others are eligible. Distortionary tax subsidies encourage firms to concentrate investments in tax-favored assets profitability of investment and reducing payoffs to bondholders in the event of default....

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