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Essays in Macroeconomics and Public Finance
Essays in Macroeconomics and Public Finance
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103559
- ISBN
- 9798288862656
- DDC
- 658
- 서명/저자
- Essays in Macroeconomics and Public Finance
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Berkeley, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 220 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-01, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Steinsson, Jon.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation consists of three papers that study how public policy affects the investment and savings choices of firms and individuals.In the first essay, I study how interest rates affect the investment decisions of firms. I estimate the elasticity of investment to interest rates using cross-sectional variation and high-frequency monetary shocks. My estimates imply that a 1 p.p. decrease in interest rates increases capital demand by around 3.5% eight quarters after the shock. This indicates a significant effect of interest rates on investment but is much smaller than prominent estimates of the interest rate elasticity derived from the investment response to tax policy changes. In a quantitative model with heterogeneous firms, I show that the impulse response I estimate provides a powerful tool to discriminate between models with different frictions. The evidence favors models with external financing constraints, while models with large real adjustment costs cannot match evidence from both interest rate and tax policy shocks.In the second essay (co-authored with Ulf Nielsson and Anders Yding), we study how taxes on land affect residential housing markets and aggregate economic outcomes. Land value taxes are often seen as particularly desirable because the fixed supply of land implies no efficiency loss from taxation, with the entire tax burden falling on current landowners. We study the incidence and efficiency of land taxes using a unique quasi-experiment that generated persistent variation in land tax rates across Danish municipalities. In contrast to the predictions of standard, neoclassical models, we estimate a precise zero effect of land taxes on residential home prices. The precision of our estimates allows us to confidently rule out full capitalization of taxes into home prices using leading estimates of housing discount rates. Our results imply that the burden of land taxes is shared with tenants and future purchasers. We also estimate null effects of land taxes on measures of housing development, mobility, and homeownership, though we do find that older homeowners sort away from high tax areas. Our results are consistent with limited efficiency costs of land value taxation but imply that land taxes are more regressive in our setting than predicted by standard models.In the final essay (co-authored with Kristy Kim), we study how the design of pension programs affects labor supply to the firm. Private retirement plans are a crucial part of worker's compensation in the U.S. and have long been thought to influence labor supply. This essay uses a cohort-based regression discontinuity design to examine how a change in the retirement plan at the largest U.S. employer, the Federal Government, impacted the retention of employees over the entire life cycle. We find that workers with less valuable employer pensions but more portable retirement benefits were more likely to separate from the government around 15 and 30 years after beginning federal service. We find smaller, statistically insignificant effects in the first few years of employment. We also find evidence that the effects are driven by highly productive workers, identified through supplemental compensation or early promotions. Our results suggest that employees respond to changes in the value of retirement benefits by leaving employers for better outside options, but that employees may be inattentive or job-locked early in their careers. These findings demonstrate that non-wage compensation impacts labor supply decisions across a worker's lifecycle and the distribution of human capital over time, particularly in labor markets where employers compete through diverse compensation structures.
- 일반주제명
- Finance
- 일반주제명
- Public policy
- 키워드
- Public finance
- 키워드
- Macroeconomics
- 키워드
- Investment
- 기타저자
- University of California, Berkeley Economics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-01A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aThis dissertation consists of three papers that study how public policy affects the investment and savings choices of firms and individuals.In the first essay, I study how interest rates affect the investment decisions of firms. I estimate the elasticity of investment to interest rates using cross-sectional variation and high-frequency monetary shocks. My estimates imply that a 1 p.p. decrease in interest rates increases capital demand by around 3.5% eight quarters after the shock. This indicates a significant effect of interest rates on investment but is much smaller than prominent estimates of the interest rate elasticity derived from the investment response to tax policy changes. In a quantitative model with heterogeneous firms, I show that the impulse response I estimate provides a powerful tool to discriminate between models with different frictions. The evidence favors models with external financing constraints, while models with large real adjustment costs cannot match evidence from both interest rate and tax policy shocks.In the second essay (co-authored with Ulf Nielsson and Anders Yding), we study how taxes on land affect residential housing markets and aggregate economic outcomes. Land value taxes are often seen as particularly desirable because the fixed supply of land implies no efficiency loss from taxation, with the entire tax burden falling on current landowners. We study the incidence and efficiency of land taxes using a unique quasi-experiment that generated persistent variation in land tax rates across Danish municipalities. In contrast to the predictions of standard, neoclassical models, we estimate a precise zero effect of land taxes on residential home prices. The precision of our estimates allows us to confidently rule out full capitalization of taxes into home prices using leading estimates of housing discount rates. Our results imply that the burden of land taxes is shared with tenants and future purchasers. We also estimate null effects of land taxes on measures of housing development, mobility, and homeownership, though we do find that older homeowners sort away from high tax areas. Our results are consistent with limited efficiency costs of land value taxation but imply that land taxes are more regressive in our setting than predicted by standard models.In the final essay (co-authored with Kristy Kim), we study how the design of pension programs affects labor supply to the firm. Private retirement plans are a crucial part of worker's compensation in the U.S. and have long been thought to influence labor supply. This essay uses a cohort-based regression discontinuity design to examine how a change in the retirement plan at the largest U.S. employer, the Federal Government, impacted the retention of employees over the entire life cycle. We find that workers with less valuable employer pensions but more portable retirement benefits were more likely to separate from the government around 15 and 30 years after beginning federal service. We find smaller, statistically insignificant effects in the first few years of employment. We also find evidence that the effects are driven by highly productive workers, identified through supplemental compensation or early promotions. Our results suggest that employees respond to changes in the value of retirement benefits by leaving employers for better outside options, but that employees may be inattentive or job-locked early in their careers. These findings demonstrate that non-wage compensation impacts labor supply decisions across a worker's lifecycle and the distribution of human capital over time, particularly in labor markets where employers compete through diverse compensation structures.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0028.
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■653 ▼aMacroeconomics
■653 ▼aInterest rate elasticity
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■792 ▼a2025
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17357782▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


