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Table of Contents

  • I. Introduction

  • II. Stylized Facts

  • A. Heterogeneity in Goods and Production

  • B. Heterogeneity in Consumption

  • III. Model

  • A. Production and Firms

  • B. Households

  • C. Government

  • D. Stationary Competitive Equilibrium

  • IV. Benchmark Economy

  • A. Preferences

  • B. Household’s labor productivity

  • C. Technology

  • D. Government

  • V. Experiments And Key Results

  • A. The middle-class tax cut

  • B. Consumption Tax and EITC Expansion

  • C. Tax cuts for high income groups

  • VI. Sensitivity Analysis

  • VII. Conclusions

  • References

  • Figures

  • 1. Tradability, Labor Intensity, and Share of U.S. Final Demand for Commodities

  • 2. Distribution of Educational Attainment, by Sector

  • 3. Average Expenditure Share on Manufactured Goods

  • 4. Baseline Tax Function

  • 5. Middle Class Cut with EITC Expansion

  • 6. Middle-Class Tax Cut Effects

  • 7. Consumption Tax and EITC Expansion Effects

  • 8. High Income Tax Cut

  • 9. High Income Tax Cuts: Closed vs. Open (% change)

  • Tables

  • 1. Preferences Parameters

  • 2. Skills Parameters

  • 3. Stochastic Productivity Parameters

  • Appendix I.

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Macroeconomic and Distributional Effects of Personal Income Tax Reforms: A Heterogenous Agent Model Approach for the U.S
Author:
Mrs. Sandra V Lizarazo Ruiz
,
Adrian Peralta
, and
Mr. Damien Puy