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Macroeconomic Implications of Tax Cuts for the Top Income Groups: 1960 - 2010

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  • Markus Poschke

    (McGill University, Montreal)

  • Baris Kaymak

    (Universite de Montreal)

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Over the last 40 years the US tax system went through striking changes that considerably reduced the progressivity of the system. This resulted in a dramatic reduction of effective tax rates on top income groups. This paper investigates the macroeconomic repercussions of this change in tax policy, particularly for the distributions of income, wealth, consumption and welfare.

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  • Markus Poschke & Baris Kaymak, 2014. "Macroeconomic Implications of Tax Cuts for the Top Income Groups: 1960 - 2010," 2014 Meeting Papers 1054, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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    1. Brüggemann, Bettina & Yoo, Jinhyuk, 2015. "Aggregate and distributional effects of increasing taxes on top income earners," IMFS Working Paper Series 94, Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS).

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