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This paper examines the elasticity of taxable income with a focus on income controls designed to control for divergence in the income distribution and mean reversion.
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This paper studies the asset pricing implications of dividend and corporate income taxes in a stochastic general equilibrium model with production similar to Jermann (1998).
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Catastrophe insurance helps spread risks and increases the ability of policyholders and the economy to recover from both natural disasters and terrorist attacks.
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This paper presents applications of variants of a differencing methodology to Internal Revenue Service tax records in order to estimate taxable income elasticities for the 1990s.
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We evaluate the labor supply response in a stochastic overlapping generations model with incomplete markets and a non separable utility function in labor and consumption.
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Recent research indicates that there have been fund amental changes in the way the economy works since the mid-1980s, including a reduction in the volatility of real GDP growth and lower rates of inflation and unemployment.
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This paper surveys empirical and theoretical literature on macroeconomic production functions and assesses whether constant elasticity of substitution or Cobb-Douglas specification is more appropriate for CBO's macroeconomic forecasts.
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This paper examines changes in the age at which people claim Social Security retirement benefits in response to two changes that have been made recently to rules governing the Social Security program.
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Since China began its pro-market reform in 1978, its management of capital flows has followed a cautious learning-by-doing approach, guided by the goal of propelling strong economic growth while minimizing risk to stability.
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This paper applies the methods of Gruber and Saez (2002) to a panel of tax returns spanning years 1979 through 2001 in order to examine the sensitivity of the elasticities of taxable and broad income to an array of factors.