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I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Public economics group. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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Tag Archives: Capital
Declining Savings Among the Bottom 90%
From Saez and Zucman (2014)
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Tagged Capital, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman, inequality, Savings
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Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data
From Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman: This paper combines income tax returns with Flow of Funds data to estimate the distribution of household wealth in the United States since 1913. We estimate wealth by capitalizing the incomes reported by individual … Continue reading
Optimal Wealth Taxation: Redistribution and Political Economy
Here are a few interesting links from Ivan Werning on capital taxation, Piketty, and political economy. 1. Optimal Wealth Taxation: Redistribution and Political Economy – slides from his plenary at SED 2014 2. A Reappraisal of Chamley-Judd Zero Capital Taxation … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital, Capital Taxation, Chamley-Judd, Emmanuel Farhi, Ivan Werning, Piketty, Redistribution, Taxes, Wealth
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Behavioral Responses to an Annual Wealth Tax: Evidence from Sweden
From David Seim: This paper addresses the behavioral effects of an annual wealth tax. I use Swedish tax records over the period 2000-2006 to estimate bunching at kink points in the pro- gressive tax schedule and find significant estimates of … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital, Capital Taxation, David Seim, Savings, Taxation, Wealth
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The Distribution of US Wealth, Capital Income, and Returns since 1913
From Paul Krugman: Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman have been developing an alternative procedure for estimating top wealth shares — preliminary slides here — and it tells a very different story from the common one. According to their estimates, the wealth … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman, inequality, Paul Krugman, Wealth
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Krugman on Piketty
Krugman has an insightful post on Piketty’s recent book. I find this easiest to think of in terms of a numerical example. Let’s assume that s = .09 and initially n = .03. Then the capital-output ratio is 3; if … Continue reading
Quasi-Experimental Evidence on The Connection Between Property Taxes and Residential Capital Investment
From Byron Lutz: Do low property taxes attract residential capital investment? This question is answered using an unusual school finance reform in the state of New Hampshire. The reform induced large shifts in property tax burdens and this shock is used … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron Lutz, Capital, Capital Investment, Housing, Investment, Local Public Finance, Property Taxes
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Weekend reading
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Tagged Capital, Capital Taxation, ineuqality, Middle Class, Taxes, Thomas Piketty, weath
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Wealth Inequality since 1810
Via Emmanuel Saez’s lecture notes on capital income taxation
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Tagged Capital, capital income taxation, Capital Taxation, Emmanuel Saez, inequality, Thomas Piketty, Wealth
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