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I'm an Economics Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley focusing on public finance topics at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. My current research focus is on the interaction of corporate taxation, firm location decisions, and the location and scale of economic activity. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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- Will Housing Save the U.S. Economy? by Amir Sufi
- Betsey Stevenson appointed to CEA
- Declining Labor Shares and Rising Corporate Profits
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Tag Archives: Taxes
Burying Supply-Side Once and for All by Neera Tanden
Neera Tanden has an interesting article in Democracy Journal on supply side economics. Supply-side economics assumes that lower tax rates boost economic growth by giving people incentives to work, save, and invest more. A critical tenet of this theory is … Continue reading
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Tagged CAP, inequality, Middle Class, Neera Tanden, supply side, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, Taxes
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Who Gets Tax Breaks? Tax Expenditures and Credits by Income Group
From Dylan Matthews: The CBO is out with a big new report on who gets what out of tax expenditures, the deduction, credits, and exclusions that have grown to cost the federal government hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Here’s the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dylan Matthews, Tax Expenditures, Tax Reform, Taxes, wonkblog
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Apple, Avoidance, and Corporate Tax Incidence
In all the discussion over Apple today, remember that if labor bears the corporate tax, then companies avoiding it may actually end up helping workers. In other words, if workers end up picking up the tab (because capital is mobile/companies … Continue reading
Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
From Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl, and Sebastian Siegloch: Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German … Continue reading
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Tagged Andreas Peichl, Clemens Fuest, Corporate Taxes, Germany, Incidence, Sebastian Siegloch, Tax Incidence, Taxes, Wages
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The Role of Automatic Stabilizers in the U.S. Business Cycle
Alisdair McKay and Ricardo Reis have a new paper on automatic stabilizers with some interesting results on heterogeneous effects for different income groups. ABSTRACT: Most countries have automatic rules in their tax-and-transfer systems that are partly intended to stabilize economic … Continue reading
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Tagged Alisdair McKay, Fiscal Policy, Ricardo Reis, Tax Cuts for Whom, Taxes
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What happens when top income earners receive smaller subsidies for retirement savings?
Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Soren Leth-Petersen, Torben Heien Nielsen, and Tore Olsen ask this question and answer it here. When individuals in the top income tax bracket received a smaller tax subsidy for retirement savings, they started saving less in retirement accounts….. but the … Continue reading
The Congress-Does-Nothing Deficit Reduction Plan
This David Kamin article on future tax revenues and bracket creep is worth reading. Here are a couple highlights: Because of some long-standing elements of our system as well as clever provisions in the Affordable Care Act, taxes will actually … Continue reading
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Tagged David Kamin, Healthcare, Obamacare, Richard Rubin, Spending, Tax Expenditure, Tax Reform, Taxes
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Labs of Democracy & Today’s Fiscal Policy Debates
Here’s my latest Economix column on the labs of democracy & today’s fiscal policy debates on uncertainty, spending, and spending vs taxes: Many of the fiercest disagreements about fiscal policy today stem from disagreements about the causes of the slow … Continue reading
Fiscal Policy and MPC Heterogeneity
Tullio Jappelli and Luigi Pistaferri have a recent paper called Fiscal Policy and MPC Heterogeneity. Here’s an interesting figure from it that shows how MPC varies by cash-on-hand: They aren’t the only ones who document MPC heterogeneity. Dynan, Skinner, Zeldes have a … Continue reading
