Author: Mary Eschelbach Hansen
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Symposium on Tax Policy in an Unequal Economy | April 2023
“The Symposium on Tax Policy in an Unequal Economy,” held at American University, was IMPA’s inaugural event.
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Corporate Taxation and Market Power Wealth
This academic paper studies the aggregate and distributional effects of corporate tax reforms when market power is heterogeneous across sectors and firms. We use a life-cycle model with incomplete markets in which capital and equity do not always move in tandem when corporate tax policy changes. On the one hand, the increase in the tax rate causes…
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New Macroeconomic Model Shows TCJA Corporate Tax Cut was Harmful to the Economy in both Aggregate and Distributional Terms
This brief explains IMPA’s analysis of the corporate tax cuts in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). IMPA’s analysis accurately predicts the growth in investment, output, jobs, and wages that followed its enactment. This paper builds on the work from IMPA’s series on corporate tax policy. Check our publications page for the latest reports and analysis from IMPA.…
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Policy Perspectives on Market Power | March 2023
IMPA’s “Policy Perspectives on Market Power” was a small, high-powered conference that featured research presentations and wide-ranging discussions on the most crucial implications of market power for policymaking. The event aimed to provide a forum for leading policymakers and academics to present and discuss the causes and consequences of market power, focusing on the outcomes…