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Fiscal Volatility Shocks And Economic Activity
August 9, 2011 12:00am PDT
The authors study the effects of changes in uncertainty about future fiscal policy on aggregate economic activity. Fiscal deficits and public debt have risen sharply in the wake of the financial...
Provided by: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
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Discussion Threads
My advice on debt and deficit, Mr. Obama
August 1, 2011 10:31am PDT
My advice on debt and deficit, Mr. Obama If I could write Obama a speech for tonight, I'd give him these three points: 1. "I recognize that, under the 14th amendment, neither Congress nor any...
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Keynesian Fiscal Stimulus: What Have We Learned From The Great Recession?
August 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
What have we learned from the Great Recession about Keynesian fiscal stimulus? This paper contains five sections that develop the following five points: there is confusion about what constitutes...
Provided by: University of Delaware
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A Model Of The Consumption Response To Fiscal Stimulus Payments
August 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
A wide body of empirical evidence, based on randomized experiments, finds that 20-40 percent of fiscal stimulus payments (e.g. tax rebates) are spent on nondurable household consumption in the...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Tax Expenditures, The Size And Efficiency Of Government, And Implications For Budget Reform
August 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
One possible explanation for the difficulty in controlling the budget is that a major component of spending - tax expenditures - receives privileged status. It is treated as tax cuts rather than...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Taxes, Wages And Working Hours
August 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
This paper presents estimates of individuals' responses in hourly wages to changes in marginal tax rates. Estimates based on register panel data of Swedish households covering the period 1992 to...
Provided by: Institute for the Study of Labor
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Tax Policy And Income Inequality In The U.S., 1978-2009: A Decomposition Approach
August 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
The authors assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows them to disentangle mechanical effects due to changes in pre-tax incomes...
Provided by: Institute for the Study of Labor
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Economic Integration And The Optimal Corporate Tax Structure With Heterogeneous Firms
August 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
The authors study the optimal combination of corporate tax rate and tax base in a model of a small open economy with heterogeneous firms. They show that it is optimal for the small country's...
Provided by: Trinity College Dublin
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Macroeconomic Effects Of Fiscal Consolidations In A DSGE Model For The Euro Area: Does Composition Matter?
July 25, 2011 12:00am PDT
The authors develop a new-Keynesian DSGE model with an extended fiscal policy block to assess the conditions for expansionary fiscal consolidations. In addition to several taxes, they consider...
Provided by: Universidade do Porto
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Solution Brief: Optimizing Video Delivery with Blue Coat
July 18, 2011 12:00am PDT
Hosting and disseminating videos within your business offers a unique challenge to organizations with limitations in their IT departments. Perhaps the issue isn't with hardware, but rather the way...
Provided by: Blue Coat Systems
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Financial Armageddon - a rant
July 8, 2011 6:52pm PDT
Compromise Doesn't matter if they do or they don't. Tomorrow is cancelled. Moreover, we will NEVER solve this problem unless....... ...... this country gets back on the track originally intended....
176 Started by AV . | Latest comment by santeewelding
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Inefficiencies From Metropolitan Political And Fiscal Decentralization: Failures Of Tiebout Competition
July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the welfare effects of provision of local public goods in an empirically relevant setting using a multi-community model with mobile and heterogeneous households, and with...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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An Optimal Tax System
July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
A notable feature and principal virtue of Tax by Design is its system-wide perspective on different elements of the tax system. This paper builds on this trait and offers a more explicit...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Tax Policy And The Efficiency Of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad
July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly characterized as a subsidy to foreign investment, as reflected in its inclusion among "Tax expenditures" and occasional calls for its...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Levy Institute Measure Of Economic Well-Being: Estimates For Canada, 1999 And 2005
July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
This paper presents estimates of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) for a representative sample of Canadian households in 1999 and 2005. The results indicate that there was...
Provided by: Levy Economics Institute
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Democratic Accountability And The Relative Obstacles To Foreign Investment
June 29, 2011 12:00am PDT
This paper considers the relationship between democratic accountability in developing countries and the policies they use to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The authors isolate two policy...
Provided by: American University of Paris
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Avoid unpleasant tax surprises for your IT consultancy
June 28, 2011 3:51pm PDT
Avoid unpleasant tax surprises for your IT consultancy article root Sorry I have to disagree here Audits by the Tax Man are worst thing you can undergo. The first year I had this business going...
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Avoid unpleasant tax surprises for your IT consultancy
June 27, 2011 10:22am PDT
Sales and use tax audits don't need to be anxiety-provoking events for IT consultancies. Here are suggestions on how your firm can avoid tax nightmares.
5 Latest comment by HAL 9000
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Case Studies
Single IT Service Centre For All HMRC Applications And Hardware
June 27, 2011 12:00am PDT
HM Revenue & Customs staffs rely on IT to collect tax and duties, so if they have an IT problem they need to solve it quickly and simply. Users either get IT help and advice from the intranet, or...
Provided by: Capgemini
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US taps IT and consumers to solve the 21st century energy challenge
June 13, 2011 1:18pm PDT
US taps IT and consumers to solve the 21st century energy challenge article root Can the U.S. innovate and lead in the 21st century energy race? Link to original post:...
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