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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: Taxes
Comparative Advantage and Optimal Trade Policy
From Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson, Jonathan Vogel, Iván Werning: The theory of comparative advantage is at the core of neoclassical trade theory. Yet we know little about its implications for how nations should conduct their trade policy. For example, should import sectors with weaker … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson, Ivan Werning, Jonathan Vogel, Taxes, Trade, trade policy
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Tax Benefits to Housing and Inefficiencies in Location and Consumption
From David Albouy and Andrew Hanson: Tax benefits to owner-occupied housing provide incentives for housing consumption, offsetting weaker disincentives of the property tax. These benefits also help counter the penalty federal taxes impose on households who work in productive high-wage … Continue reading
Competing for Global Capital or Local Voters? The Politics of Business Location Incentives
From Nathan Jensen, Edmund Malesky, Matthew Walsh: The competition for global capital has led to wars between countries, states, and cities, as to who can offer the most attractive fiscal incentives to firms. In this study, we examine the domestic politics of … Continue reading
Who benefits from state corporate tax cuts?
Here is a new VOXEU summary of my job market paper for their job market paper series: State and local governments have been increasing business location incentives and cutting corporate taxes to attract businesses to their jurisdictions. For instance, Jay Inslee, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Taxes, Incidence, Job Market Paper, Local Labor Markets, Taxes
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3 Links on Corporate Profits
1. Jim Tankersley writes on Boeing and state corporate tax breaks and profiles my job market paper with Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato on the welfare effects of cutting corporate taxes in an open economy 2. Enrico Moretti on the tech boom and … Continue reading
Slides on Thomas Picketty’s new book on Capital
Here are slides. HT Cardiff Garcia
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Tagged Capital, Capital Taxation, inequality, Taxes, Thomas Picketty
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The Dynamic Effects of Personal and Corporate Income Tax Changes in the United States
From Karel Mertens and Morten Ravn: This paper presents evidence on the aggregate effects of changes in federal tax policy in the United States in the post-WWII sample. Exogenous changes in taxes are identified in a vector autoregressive model by proxying latent … Continue reading
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Tagged Christy Romer, Corporate Tax, Corporate Taxation, David Romer, employment, Karel Mertens, Morten Ravn, Personal Taxes, Tax Cuts, Taxes
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The Future of Capital Income Taxation
From Alan Auerbach: The case against capital income taxation is stronger now than when Pechman wrote [in 1900], given the difficulty of collecting capital income taxes in a world of financial innovation and capital mobility. […] The rising importance of financial … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Auerbach, Capital, Capital Mobility, Capital Taxation, Corporate Taxes, Corporations, Efficiency, Equity, Finance, firms, Taxes
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Rethinking capital and wealth taxation
From Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez: This paper reviews recent developments in the theory of optimal capital taxation. We emphasize three main rationales for capital taxation. First, the frontier between capital and labor income flows is often fuzzy, thereby lending … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital, Capital Taxation, Emmanuel Saez, inequality, optimal taxation, Reform, Taxes, Thomas Piketty, Wealth
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Boeing’s Confidential Site Location Wish List
From the Seattle Times: Boeing says factories for its planned 777X will require total investment of up to $10 billion, but states competing for the work are asked to shrink that tab by providing the site and facilities at “no … Continue reading
