Author: Laurence J. Kotlikoff
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Languages : en
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How Regional Differences in Taxes and Public Goods Disstort Life Cycle Location Choices
Author: Laurence J. Kotlikoff
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How Regional Differences in Taxes and Public Goods Distort Life Cycle Location Choices
Author: Laurence J. Kotlikoff
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Category : Moving, Household
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Locational choice is one of the fundamental exercises of consumer sovereignty. When regions (or localities within regions) specify different tax rates or supply different amounts of public goods, they distort individuals' location choices. This paper models and measures for the U.S. and New England the location distortion arising from inter regional differences in taxation and supplies of public goods. In our overlapping generations model agents, at each point in their lifespan, choose where to locate taking into account their locational preferences, each region's wage, consumption, and personal capital income taxes, and each region's supply of public goods. The findings suggest that regional fiscal differences play an important role in the location choices of three to four percent of Americans. For these Americans the distortion of location choice is equivalent to roughly a half of a percent of their lifetime consumption. Across all Americans, however, the location distortion induced by U.S. regional fiscal differences is quite small, simply because the differences in tax rates and per capita levels of public goods expenditures across regions are not sufficiently large to induce most Americans to change location. Our analysis indicates, however, that location distortions are an increasing function of regional differences in tax rates and levels of public goods expenditure. Indeed, a doubling of the scale of public finances across all U.S. states would lead to roughly a quadrupling of the location distortion.
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Category : Moving, Household
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Locational choice is one of the fundamental exercises of consumer sovereignty. When regions (or localities within regions) specify different tax rates or supply different amounts of public goods, they distort individuals' location choices. This paper models and measures for the U.S. and New England the location distortion arising from inter regional differences in taxation and supplies of public goods. In our overlapping generations model agents, at each point in their lifespan, choose where to locate taking into account their locational preferences, each region's wage, consumption, and personal capital income taxes, and each region's supply of public goods. The findings suggest that regional fiscal differences play an important role in the location choices of three to four percent of Americans. For these Americans the distortion of location choice is equivalent to roughly a half of a percent of their lifetime consumption. Across all Americans, however, the location distortion induced by U.S. regional fiscal differences is quite small, simply because the differences in tax rates and per capita levels of public goods expenditures across regions are not sufficiently large to induce most Americans to change location. Our analysis indicates, however, that location distortions are an increasing function of regional differences in tax rates and levels of public goods expenditure. Indeed, a doubling of the scale of public finances across all U.S. states would lead to roughly a quadrupling of the location distortion.
How regional differences in taxes and public goods distort life cycle location choices
Author: Laurence J. Kotlikoff
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Languages : es
Pages : 58
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How Regional Differences in Taxes and Public Goods Distort Life Cycle Location Choices
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Pages : 58
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How Regional Differences in Taxes and Public Goods Disort Life Cycle Location Choices
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State and Local Taxation and Economic Growth
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The Joint Economic Report
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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NBER Reporter
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Persistent Differences in National Productivity Growth Rates with a Common Technology and Free Capital Mobility
Author: Willem H. Buiter
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Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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The paper develops a two-country endogenous growth model to investigate possible causes for the existence and persistence of productivity growth differentials between nations despite a common technology, constant returns to scale and perfect international capital mobility. Private consumption is derived from a three-period overlapping generations specification. The source of productivity (growth) differentials in our model is the existence of a non-traded capital good ('human capital') whose augmentation requires a non-traded current input (time spent by the young in education rather than leisure) We consider the influence on productivity growth differentials of private thrift, public debt, the taxation of capital and savings and of policy towards human capital formation.
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Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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The paper develops a two-country endogenous growth model to investigate possible causes for the existence and persistence of productivity growth differentials between nations despite a common technology, constant returns to scale and perfect international capital mobility. Private consumption is derived from a three-period overlapping generations specification. The source of productivity (growth) differentials in our model is the existence of a non-traded capital good ('human capital') whose augmentation requires a non-traded current input (time spent by the young in education rather than leisure) We consider the influence on productivity growth differentials of private thrift, public debt, the taxation of capital and savings and of policy towards human capital formation.
Contents of Recent Economics Journals
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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