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Tax Incentives and Household Portfolios: A Panel Data Analysis

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Sule Alan
Søren Leth-Petersen

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This paper investigates the responsiveness of household portfolios to tax incentives by exploiting a substantial tax reform that altered after-tax returns and cost of debt for a large number of households. An extraordinary panel data set that covers two years before and after the reform is used for the analysis. Our empirical findings suggest that households reshuffle their balance sheets in the case of a partial deductibility phase-out. In particular, heavily taxed, interest-bearing assets are used to pay off mortgage debt. Furthermore, we find that taxes have a significant impact on the structure of household portfolios even after controlling for unobserved heterogeneity.

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Paper provided by McMaster University in its series Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population Research Papers with number 163.

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Keywords: Household portfolios taxation panel data natural experiment

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G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household

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  1. Paul Smith & David Love, 2007. "Does health affect portfolio choice?," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2007-45, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.). [Downloadable!]
  2. Bo Honoré & Søren Leth-Petersen, 2006. "Estimation of Panel Data Models with Two-sided Censoring," CAM Working Papers 2006-14, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Applied Microeconometrics. [Downloadable!]
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