Abstract T he return of capital is fundamental to the intertemporal allocation of resources by changing the consumption behavior and capital accumulation over time. Taxation on return of capital increases the marginal product of capital, meaning that capital stock is lower than when capital is not taxed, which results decreased growth and welfare in steady state. This pape...

MICHAEL BRANDON TALLEY Examining the Impact of Development, Tobacco Taxation, and Tobacco Prices on Global Adult Male Smoking Prevalence (Under the direction of Michael Eriksen, Faculty Member) Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the world. Nevertheless, the global tobacco epidemic continues to spread throughout much of the world, particularly in developing countries. Previ...

BACKGROUND How electronic cigarettes and similar products (e-cigarettes) are defined affects how they are regulated, particularly whether existing laws for cigarettes apply, including sales and marketing, youth access, smoke-free and taxation laws. METHODS We examined the text of 46 bills that define e-cigarettes enacted in 40 states and characterised how e-cigarettes and similar products wer...

Both bankruptcy regulation and redistributive taxation vary considerably across US states. We model the interactions between these two policies: redistributive taxation targets intratemporal inequality whereas asset exemptions in bankruptcy procedures help agents to smooth consumption across time. We derive sufficient conditions under which more redistributive taxation makes bankruptcy exemptio...

iran’s economy has experienced an average inflation rate of 18.77 percent during the period of 1979-2010. many economists believe that the budget deficits are one of the main determinants of the chronic and relatively high inflation. this paper investigates the relationship between budget deficits and inflation. dynamics of iran’s monetary sector, based on the three cointegration relations i.e....

In a number of ways, the United ingdom’s National Health Service NHS) is a unique experiment, springng from the fusion at the end of World ar II of a number of synergistic eleents: a powerful desire for social hange; a determination on the part of he populace not to repeat the experince of the broken promises after orld War I; the presence on the table n 1945 of a plan for social service reorm,...

The present study examines how the degree of progressivity of the U.S. Federal Income Tax has changed over time (from 1929 through 2009). Data from the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Census Bureau, and Bureau of Economic Analysis is used to construct “tax concentration curves” and “income concentration curves” (of which the well known Lorenz Curve is an example) for each year during this time p...