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- 01 Jun 2017
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productivity. Professor Emeritus Robert S. Kaplan explain how he uses action research to lower the cost of health care. Professor Mihir Desai talk about his research and his testimony before Congress on international tax reform. View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
Authors:David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 11 (November 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/11/kfcs-radical-approach-to-china/ar/1 Tax Policy and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2020
- News
One Paramount Priority
to citizenship for dreamers, preserving Obamacare with a public option, increasing taxes on the wealthy, and the right to abortion, recognizing that the decision would be excruciating. “The majority are just trying to make ends meet... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
compensation committees for large corporations, sign lengthy public proxy statements, and are already under intense public scrutiny. Pay for performance, in theory, should be a win-win proposition for investors and managers alike. It is generally condoned by... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
we need universal health-care insurance. This lack of penalty might explain why overt dodging appears so prevalent in politics (and in life). “Listening is much more taxing than we might think.” The second interesting finding was that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
the latter's Vermont farm, according to biographer Richard Parker. Galbraith, in his book The Affluent Society, argued for the importance of fiscal policy in influencing the allocation of resources between rich and poor. This was to be done through the maintenance of a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
or nonprofit must demonstrate to its shareholders or donors that it can perform efficiently. To state the obvious, companies must make money. How could running a local government be a profitable enterprise? In a word: taxes. Voters in corrupt municipalities currently... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Article
Macroeconomic Policy and U.S. Competitiveness
as education and infrastructure, contributes directly to one or more of them, whereas spending on health care and entitlements does little to enhance competitiveness directly. Taxes are needed to fund public goods, but they sometimes... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
Working PapersInvestable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Authors:Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala, and Monica Singhal Abstract The Low Income Housing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
Statistics Trade Credit and Taxes By: Desai, Mihir, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Abstract—This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016
views on distributive justice are shown to differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax research. A large share of respondents, and in some cases a large majority, resist the full... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16
Technical Note 713-090): 1. To describe what tax havens are and the mechanics of how these jurisdictions operate. 2. To evaluate tax havens as a model for country development. 3. To examine the economic and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
Representative Kevin Brady, a Republican from Texas and the House Ways and Means chairman, stated "our legislation transfers power from Washington back to the American people. We dismantle Obamacare's damaging taxes and mandates so... View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
procedures to start a business declining from 15 to 5. Equally good news was that the average time to prepare and pay taxes declined from 264 to 193 hours over the same period. The Failures This is all good news and, in theory, should... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Make or Break
assignment from the White House: reverse the decline of American manufacturing. As the New York Times (September 9, 2010) noted, Bloom’s tools, “apart from his persuasiveness,” are effectively limited to tax credits and subsidies for new... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
Egyptians. There are still many problems that need to be solved, including whether enough high-quality schools can be built fast enough, and tax structures that reward leaving construction sites a mess of rubble and buildings unfinished,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
Returns is a way for me to state my deep conviction that any organization, even a tax collection agency, can serve its stakeholders at higher levels than it ever imagined — if its leaders resolutely and passionately set out to do so. What... View Details