Tax Incentives and Household Portfolios: A Panel Data Analysis

Sule Alan () and Leth-Petersen, Søren
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Leth-Petersen, Søren: Akf - Institute of Local Government Studies, Denmark

No 2006-13, CAM Working Papers from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Applied Microeconometrics

Abstract: This paper investigates the responsiveness of household portfolios to tax incentives by exploiting a substantial tax reform that altered after-tax returns and cost of debt for a large number of households. An extraordinary panel data set that covers two years before and after the reform is used for the analysis. Our empirical findings suggest that households reshuffle their balance sheets in the case of a partial deductibility phase-out. In particular, heavily taxed,interest-bearing assets are used to pay off mortgage debt. Furthermore, we find that taxes have a significant impact on the structure of household portfolios even after controlling for unobserved heterogeneity.

Keywords: household portfolios; taxation; panel data; natural experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 H31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-fin, nep-pbe and nep-pub
Date: 2006-10
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