Taxes and Firm Investment
Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
SSRN Electronic Journal
Publication Date
1-19-2021
Abstract
We investigate the firm level investment responses to narrative shocks to average personal and corporate tax rates using a universal micro dataset of publicly traded U.S firms for the post-1962 period. By allowing for heterogeneous effects over the business cycle and accompanying monetary policy regime, as well as over firm-level characteristics, we show that : (i) corporate tax multipliers are negative overall, but this result is driven by smaller firms who face larger borrowing constraints, especially during high-unemployment periods or when the accompanying monetary policy is contractionary; (ii) while the magnitude and the significance of personal income tax multipliers are smaller on the aggregate, there is some evidence of positive personal tax multipliers in high unemployment state by large (dividend-paying) firms, which is consistent with the recent literature.
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Disciplines
Business
Recommended Citation
Arin, K. Peren; Devereux, Kevin; and Mazur, Mieszko, "Taxes and Firm Investment" (2021). All Works. 4312.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/4312
Indexed in Scopus
no
Open Access
yes
Open Access Type
Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository