Quantifying optimal growth policy

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The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and takes into account transitional dynamics. Currently, for calculating corporate taxable income US firms are allowed to deduct approximately all of their capital and R&D costs from sales revenue. Our analysis suggests that this policy leads to severe underinvestment in both R&D and physical capital. We find that firms should be allowed to deduct between 2-2.5 times their R&D costs and about 1.5-1.7 times their capital costs. Implementing the optimal policy mix is likely to entail huge welfare gains.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5007

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General ; Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General ; Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
• Thema: Economic growth ; endogenous technical change ; optimal growth policy ; tax-transfer system ; transitional dynamics ; Wachstumspolitik ; Investitionspolitik ; Forschungssubvention ; Steuerbegünstigung ; Körperschaftsteuer ; Steuerwirkung ; Optimales Wachstum ; Endogener technischer Fortschritt ; Theorie ; USA

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Grossmann, Volker ; Steger, Thomas M. ; Trimborn, Timo
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36829