Aggregate implications of the tax reform of 2017: Can taxes guide technology?

Hernan Moscoso Boedo

Economics Letters, 2018, vol. 173, issue C, 6-9

Abstract: This paper analyzes the effects of the US tax reform of 2017 using a model of endogenous technological adoption. The lower tax levels induce large human capital investments that are augmented by the endogenous transition towards skill biased technologies.

Keywords: Endogenous skill biased technical change; Tax policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E23 E25 E65 J24 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.09.009

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