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Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Comment

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  • Clément Malgouyres
  • Thierry Mayer
  • Clément Mazet-Sonilhac

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Suarez Serrato and Zidar (2016) identify state corporate tax incidence in a spatial equilibrium model with imperfectly mobile firms. Their identification argument rests on comparative statics omitting a channel implied by their model: the link between common determinants of a location's attractiveness and the average idiosyncratic productivity of firms choosing that location. This compositional margin causes the labor demand elasticity to be independent from the product demand elasticity, impeding the identification of incidence from the four estimated reduced-form effects. Assigning consensual values to the unidentified parameters, we find that the incidence share borne by firm owners is closer to 25 percent than 40 percent.

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  • Clément Malgouyres & Thierry Mayer & Clément Mazet-Sonilhac, 2023. "Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Comment," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 113(8), pages 2270-2286, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:113:y:2023:i:8:p:2270-86
    DOI: 10.1257/aer.20201753
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    Cited by:

    1. Carlos G'oes, 2025. "Testing Piketty's Hypothesis on the Drivers of Income Inequality: Evidence from Panel VARs with Heterogeneous Dynamics," Papers 2505.01521, arXiv.org.
    2. David Gstrein & Florian Neumeier & Andreas Peichl & Pascal Zamorski, 2025. "Capitalists, Workers and Landlords: A Comprehensive Analysis of Corporate Tax Incidence," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series 25143, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin).

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    JEL classification:

    • H22 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Incidence
    • H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
    • H32 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Firm
    • H71 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
    • R51 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Finance in Urban and Rural Economies

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