xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-contributor-funder:
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España) Comunidad de Madrid
Sponsor:
Erosa acknowledges financial support from the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of
Spain (grants ECO2015-68615-P and MDM 2014-0431) and Comunidad de Madrid, MadEco-CM (S2015/HUM-3444). Erosa also acknowledges financial sup-
port from the Banco de España. González gratefully acknowledges support from Fundación La Caixa (ID 100010434), grant number LCF/BQ/ES15/10360005
Project:
Comunidad de Madrid. S2015/HUM-3444 Gobierno de España. ECO2015-68615-P Gobierno de España. MDM 2014-0431
Keywords:
Capital income taxation
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Firm dynamics
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Investment
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Macroeconomics
The Hopenhayn and Rogerson (1993) framework is extended to understand how different forms of taxing capital income affect firms’ investment and financial policies over their life cycle. Relative to dividends and capital gains taxation, corporate income taxatioThe Hopenhayn and Rogerson (1993) framework is extended to understand how different forms of taxing capital income affect firms’ investment and financial policies over their life cycle. Relative to dividends and capital gains taxation, corporate income taxation slows down firm growth over the life cycle by reducing after-tax profits available for reinvesting. It also diminishes entry by negatively affecting the value of entrants relative to that of incumbent firms. After a tax reform eliminating the corporate income tax in a revenue neutral way, output and capital increase by 12% and 32%. The large response of firm entry is crucial.[+][-]