Category: Publications
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Capacity Utilization, Markup Cyclicality, and Inflation Dynamics
This academic paper studies the relationship between firms’ decisions about capacity, its utilization, and inflation. To do this, we introduce endogenous capacity utilization into a New Keynesian (NK) model. In our model, firms set capacity under demand uncertainty, utilizing both an effort margin and capacity expansion to meet demand. This mechanism implies that firm-level productivity and desired…
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Repealing the Clean Energy Credits: A Macroeconomic Assessment of the GOP Proposal
This brief explains a new analysis of a Republican proposal to repeal the clean energy credits from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. The analysis finds that withdrawal of the clean energy credits would reduce GDP by approximately 2% in the long run from its anticipated level under current policy, while depressing employment and wages by…
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Capital Account Liberalization, Structural Change, and Female Employment
This academic paper studies the effects of capital account liberalization on female employment and its implications for structural change in developing countries. Using a large industry-level panel of 88 low and low-middle-income countries, we provide evidence that episodes of financial liberalization lead to large declines in female employment in tradable sectors. These declines are driven…
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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.