Keyword(s): Taxes
01/30/13
De Socio, Antonio and Nigro, Valentina, Does Corporate Taxation Affect Cross-Country Firm Leverage? (November 29, 2012). Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 889. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2206357
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10/14/12
10:50:19 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
, 267 words 
Categories: Economics Europe, Economics Global
"Taken at face value, the results suggest that the capacity to create additional tax revenue does not appear to be the first binding constraint on using tax increases for fiscal consolidation, because not many countries are likely to be located on the do… more »
05/12/12
06:12:58 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 5 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Global
Keywords: Taxes, Corporate Income Taxes more »
04/20/12
As the U.S. debt and deficit grows, some politicians and economist have called for higher tax rates in order to balance the budget. The question becomes: when the government raises taxes, does it actually collect a larger portion of the US economy?
P… more »
04/17/12
06:53:25 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 83 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Global
Forbes: The Unfairness Of Raising Taxes, April 16, 2012
Taxes are not the only thing that matter in determining job creation and economic growth. But, any politician, pundit, economist or voter who ignores the negative impact of taxes on growth and p… more »
04/15/12
Republican Paul Ryan (Wis.) who chairs the House Budget Committee about the pillars to get back to a growth path:
- internationally competitive taxes
- Spending discipline
- entitlement reforms
New York Post: Leading for the Future, April 12, 2… more »
03/08/12
06:58:26 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 104 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Global
Fiscal Times: CEOs Pump Up the Pressure for Corporate Tax Cuts
, March 7, 2012
Some of the nation’s highest powered CEOs pumped up the pressure on the White House and Congress on Tuesday to deliver a corporate tax rate cut and a balanced federal budg… more »
01/30/12
Cato on taxes:
Cato Institute: New Academic Study Confirms Previous IMF Analysis, Shows that Lower Tax Rates Are the Best Way to Reduce Tax Evasion, Jan. 30, 2012
Related:
"tax competition is a powerful mechanism to restrain the greed of the pol… more »
11/27/11
M. Boskin explains why social-welfare and structural reforms are the only solution for Europeans over-indebted, low growth countries:
Project Syndicate: Europe’s Last Best Chance, by Michael Boskin, Nov. 25, 2011
"Reforming social-welfare benefit… more »
11/02/11
07:20:58 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 213 words
Categories: Economics Europe, Economics Global
The call by Greece's prime minister Papandreou for a national referendum on the EU's rescue proposal surprised the world.
LA Times: The Achilles' heel of the Eurozone, by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Oct. 2, 2011
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, president of… more »
09/19/11
05:22:33 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 245 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Europe, Economics Global
Harvard's Jeffry Frieden wrote an article on Econbrowser. He takes a differentiated view on the debt crises. He deals with the causes, the way politicians are handling it on both sides of the atlantic and the differences between the US and the European c… more »
09/11/11
Excellent Sunday NYT column of Harvard's Mankiw. It is about incentives (e.g. tax cuts, de-regulation) which could businesses motivate to invest:NYT: How to Make Business Want to Invest Again, by N. Gregory Mankiw, Sept. 10, 2011Keywords: Investm… more »
08/18/11
As Switzerland is going through a severe economic period due to the strong Swiss franc, the Swiss Federal Council yesterday decided to provide Swiss franc 2 billion of economic stimulus to the Swiss economy. According to the latest knowledge, beneficiari… more »
08/13/11
08:14:01 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 386 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Global
In this interesting paper the authors do research on the impact of cost savings and tax increases on growth. In tendency, they come to the conclusion that fiscal stimuli based upon tax cuts are more likely to increase growth than those based upon spendin… more »
08/10/11
NYT: The Downgrading of a Debtor Nation, by Menzie D. Chinn and Jeffry A. Frieden, August 8, 2011
"An economically responsible, politically feasible distribution of the costs of working our way out of the crisis will require higher taxes, a more effic… more »
08/08/11
05:46:51 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 204 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Global
The S&P downgrade is shaking America's economic opinion leaders such as the Bloomberg Editors. They talk of a "Dubious Downgrade" in an August 8 article. Find their argumentation here:Bloomberg: S&P’s Dubious Downgrade of U.S. Is a Reminder o… more »
07/01/11
Interesting new paper by the St. Louis Fed, measuring the size of the shadow economy of a country. Not surprisingly, the marginal tax rate and inflation are major parameters of the model.Quantifying the Shadow Economy: Measurement with Theory, by Ped… more »
06/09/11
A kind of simple and easy to understand messages ... one would think ... but obviously important to be heard again and again...
Keywords: Free Lunch Myth, Government Spending, Taxes more »
05/26/11
07:02:13 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 188 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Europe
Cato Institute's Michael Tanner compares the US's public finance situtation with that of Greece:
Hellenic Handbasket,
by Michael D. Tanner, National Review, May 25, 2011
He sees the US close to getting to a "Greek situation" - if no drastic measu… more »
05/23/11
06:37:33 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 536 words
Categories: Analysts, Investment, Academic
Find following a good paper about potential rewards and risks of investing in stocks. The paper has been published in 2003. The period from 2003 until now would support their thoughts and conclusions:Dimson, Elroy, Marsh, Paul and Staunton, Mike, Irr… more »
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