Browsing Harvard Kennedy School by Keyword "Tax Policy"

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    • Consumer Response to Cigarette Excise Tax Changes 

      Chiou, Lesley; Muehlegger, Erich J. (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
      We use a rich dataset of weekly cigarette sales to examine how consumers adapt their behavior before and after excise tax increases - whether by reducing demand, stockpiling, traveling to low-tax jurisdictions, or substituting ...

    • Deals Versus Rules: Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate It 

      Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Khun-Jush, Gita; Pritchett, Lant (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
      Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions ...

    • Fuel Tax Incidence and Supply Conditions 

      Marion, Justin; Muehlegger, Erich J. (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
      In this paper, we provide new evidence regarding the pass-through of diesel and gasoline taxes to prices, and how the estimated pass-through depends on a variety of supply conditions including a measure of state residual ...

    • Informal Taxation 

      Olken, Benjamin A.; Singhal, Monica (American Economic Association, 2011)
      Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries to establish stylized facts on the magnitude, form, and distributional implications ...

    • The Tax Everyone Loves to Hate: Principle of Property Tax Reform 

      Rosengard, Jay K. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
      The dilemma is real and profound: most countries have a property tax, but few of their citizens like the tax. The property tax is the tax everyone loves to hate. Countries can seldom live with the tax as initially designed, ...