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Dividend taxes and investment during the U.S. Great Depression

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This paper builds an Aiyagari model calibrated to the US economy in the 1930s and shows that the household precautionary saving motives can tremendously mitigate the investment decline possibly caused by the anticipated dividend tax increases during the Great Depression.

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  • Jiang, Lunan, 2018. "Dividend taxes and investment during the U.S. Great Depression," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 167(C), pages 147-151.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:167:y:2018:i:c:p:147-151
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.03.024
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    • E23 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Production
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • D52 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Incomplete Markets

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