173 Research Items Found
February 07, 2018
Public finance fellow Thomas Hogan analyzes the relationship between bank lending and the Federal Reserve's policy of paying interest on …
January 18, 2018
At least four states are currently considering a gross receipts tax (GRT) to improve revenues, yet Texas legislators have made …
December 01, 2017
Many argue that sales and excise taxes are regressive based on the strict relationship between annual income and taxes paid, …
November 21, 2017
In an economy with heterogeneous firms and heterogeneous consumers, the authors describe a general equilibrium where firm equity is priced …
November 03, 2017
The authors examine the potential dynamic fiscal effects of revising or completely eliminating the home mortgage interest deduction.
Joyce Beebe, Ph.D., is a fellow in public finance at the Baker Institute. Her research focuses on tax reforms in the U.S. and computable general equilibrium modeling of the effects of tax reforms. Her other research interests include wealth accumulation over …
George R. Zodrow is the Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Chair of Economics at Rice University. He is also a Rice faculty scholar at the Baker Institute and an international research fellow at the Centre for Business Taxation at Oxford University. Zodrow …
