Capital Gains Tax Cuts, Investment, and Growth

Steven Fazzari and Benjamin Herzon
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Benjamin Herzon: The Jerome Levy Economics Institute

Macroeconomics from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Congress currently is considering changes in the capital gains tax, including reducing the rate, indexing the rate to inflation, or some combination of reduction and indexing. These changes have been advocated on the grounds that a cut in the rate will stimulate investment and economic growth. In this working paper, Research Associate Steven M. Fazzari and Benjamin Herzon, a doctoral candidate at Washington University, present a theoretical analysis of the effect of a tax cut on the cost of capital, investment, and output.

JEL-codes: E (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 1998-11-19
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Working Paper: Capital Gains Tax Cuts, Investment, and Growth (1995)
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