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State user costs of capital
This paper extends the theoretical model of Hall and Jorgenson (1967) in order to examine major changes in state and local tax laws and their effects on the variation in tax burdens across states. A user cost of capital series that accounts for the major provisions of federal and state tax laws is calculated for representative firms in all forty-eight contiguous U.S. states at five-year intervals during the period 1963 to 1997. Previous studies of this topic have been limited to estimates of effective marginal tax rates for only a handful of locations and time periods. The results suggest ...
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Integrated macroeconomic accounts for the United States: draft SNA-USA
This paper presents integrated macroeconomic accounts for the United States for the period 1985 to 2002 and discusses issues related to their construction and use. Specifically, it focuses on tying together the national income and product accounts (NIPAs) and international transaction accounts (ITA) published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the flow of funds accounts (FFA) published by the Federal Reserve Board. The paper provides integrated accounts for seven sectors: households and nonprofit organizations serving households, nonfinancial noncorporate businesses, nonfinancial ...