Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Comment

Clément Malgouyres, Thierry Mayer and Clément Mazet-Sonilhac ()
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Clément Mazet-Sonilhac: Centre de recherche de la Banque de France - Banque de France

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Abstract: Suarez Serrato and Zidar (2016) identify state corporate tax incidence in a spatial equilibrium model with imperfectly mobile firms. Their identification argument rests on comparative statics omitting a channel implied by their model: the link between common determinants of a location's attractiveness and the average idiosyncratic productivity of firms choosing that location. This compositional margin causes the labor demand elasticity to be independent from the product demand elasticity, impeding the identification of incidence from the four estimated reduced-form effects. Assigning consensual values to the unidentified parameters, we find that the incidence share borne by firm owners is closer to 25 percent than 40 percent.

Keywords: Incidence; Corporate income tax; Discrete/Continuous choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-08
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Published in American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (8), pp.2270-86. ⟨10.1257/aer.20201753⟩

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Working Paper: Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Comment (2021)
Working Paper: Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Comment (2021)
Working Paper: Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Comment (2021)
Working Paper: Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Comment (2021)
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