Not properly accounting for differences between business owners and nonbusiness owners in studies of household wealth can lead to erroneous conclusions about the significance of different saving motives. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from the 1980s and 1990s, we show that within samples of both business owners and non– business owners, the amount of precautionary savings wi...

This paper examines the association of comprehensive income with subsequent period net income as well as analysts’ earnings forecasts. Our results support the notion that comprehensive income is incrementally useful in predicting subsequent period changes in net income. We also document that comprehensive income is associated with analysts’ earnings forecast revisions and forecast errors. The e...

The purpose of this research is to conduct a marketing and revenue analysis seaweed producers. This study takes qualitative approach via the use exploratory techniques. included all farmers who grow seaweed. Slovin formula was used calculate sample size, which 40 heads households. determined using basic random sampling technique. While data gathering accomplished interviews, observation, docume...

This paper shows that in a one-sector real business cycle model with strong increasing returns in production, progressive taxation of labor income can stabilize the economy against sunspot ‡uctuations, even when the capital tax schedule is ‡at. This result is consistent with the U.S. tax code in which labor-income taxation is more progressive than capital-income taxation.

We model high income earners as sellers of quality services in a competitive assignment framework. Sellers (high income earners) are differentiated by ability; buyers by their taste for the service. There is assortative matching of buyers and sellers. We show that conventional optimal tax formulas are modified both by a social concern for buyers and an altered mapping of the talent into the inc...