The heterogeneous effects of government spending: It's all about taxes

A Ferriere, G Navarro - Review of Economic Studies, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Historically, large changes in US government spending induced fiscal efforts that were not
all alike, with some using more progressive taxes than others. We develop a heterogeneous …

Tracking weekly state-level economic conditions

C Baumeister, D Leiva-León, E Sims - Review of Economics and …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
This paper develops a novel dataset of weekly economic conditions indices for the 50 US
states going back to 1987 based on mixed-frequency dynamic factor models with weekly …

Who gains from corporate tax cuts?

J Cloyne, E Kurt, P Surico - 2023 - nber.org
Goods producers increase their capital expenditure and employment in response to a cut in
marginal corporate income tax rates or an increase in investment tax credits. In contrast …

How do tax reductions motivate technological innovation?

Z Yue, G Yang, H Wang - Humanities and Social Sciences …, 2023 - nature.com
The main approach to promoting high-quality development lies in fostering self-reliance and
self-improvement in science and technology, as well as enhancing the technological …

Nonlinear effects of government spending shocks in the USA: Evidence from state‐level data

H Mumtaz, L Sunder‐Plassmann - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper uses state‐level data to estimate the effect of government spending shocks
during expansions and recessions. By employing a mixed‐frequency framework, we are …

Housing and macroeconomics

CK Leung - Available at SSRN 4345896, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Until recently, the literature ignored the interactions between housing and macroeconomics.
Thanks to many researchers' contributions, the macro-housing field is in development. This …

[HTML][HTML] When are tax multipliers large?

A Ziegenbein - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2024 - Elsevier
I show that the US tax multiplier depends on the direction of the tax change. The tax
multiplier is significantly larger (in absolute value) for tax hikes than for tax cuts–regardless …

Keep calm and carry on emitting: cap-and-trade rules, local emissions and growth

DV Mascia, E Onali - Regional Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We estimate the impact of the Cap-and-Trade Program (CATP) in California on regional
greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth. Our preferred identification strategies …

The attention trap: Rational inattention, inequality, and fiscal policy

A Macaulay - European economic review, 2021 - Elsevier
I show that if it is costly for households to process information about asset returns, a model
with ex-ante identical households features persistent inequality. The steady state has a two …

Share buybacks and corporate tax cuts

JJ Chang, CH Kuo, HY Lin, SCS Yang - Journal of Economic Dynamics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the mid-1980s, US corporate tax cuts have become less expansionary and
increasingly associated with rising share buybacks. Using dynamic general equilibrium …