E Engen, J Skinner - National tax journal, 1996 - journals.uchicago.edu
Tax reforms are sometimes touted as having strong macroeconomic growth effects. Using three approaches, we consider the impact of a major tax reform—a 5 percentage point cut in …
We study the relationship between per capita GDP, overall tax revenue and tax composition. We find that there is some evidence of a negative and statistically significant relationship …
WG Gale, A Krupkin, K Rueben - National Tax Journal, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
The effects of state tax policy on economic growth, entrepreneur ship, and employment remain controversial. Using a framework that in prior research generated significant …
O Zidar - Journal of Political Economy, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper investigates how tax changes for different income groups affect aggregate economic activity. I construct a measure of who received (or paid for) tax changes in the …
[Excerpt] Advocates of lower tax rates argue that reduced rates would increase economic growth, increase saving and investment, and boost productivity (increase the size of the …
E Saez - Tax Policy and the Economy, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper provides preliminary evidence on behavioral responses to taxation around the 2013 tax increase that raised top marginal tax rates on capital income by about 9.5 points …
Y Lee, RH Gordon - Journal of public economics, 2005 - Elsevier
Past theoretical work predicts that higher corporate tax rates should decrease economic growth rates, while the effects of high personal tax rates are less clear. In this paper, we …
S Acosta-Ormaechea, S Sola, J Yoo - German Economic Review, 2019 - degruyter.com
We investigate how changes in the composition of tax revenue affect long-run growth in a broad cross-section of countries. To do this, we construct a new dataset that covers 70 …
We investigate how the reduction of income inequality through tax policy affects economic growth. Taxation at different points of the income distribution has heterogeneous impacts on …