Regulating Privacy Online: An Economic Evaluation of the GDPR

By Samuel G. Goldberg, Garrett A. Johnson, and Scott K. Shriver

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2024

Modern websites rely on personal data to design better content and to market themselves. The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was intended to make access to such personal data more difficult, with the goal of protecting user priv...

The Introduction of the Income Tax, Fiscal Capacity, and Migration: Evidence from US States

By Traviss Cassidy, Mark Dincecco, and Ugo Antonio Troiano

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2024

We evaluate how fiscal capacity and migration respond to the introduction of the individual income tax, drawing on new panel data on US states from 1900 to 2010. We find that the introduction of the income tax increased revenue per capita by 12 percent in...

Addressing Environmental Justice through In-Kind Court Settlements

By Pamela Campa and Lucija Muehlenbachs

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2024

In US environmental court cases, a cash penalty can be mitigated if a defendant volunteers to undertake an in-kind project, such as retrofitting school buses or building a public park. A goal of the policy is to address environmental justice concerns for ...

State Taxation of Nonresident Income and the Location of Work

By David R. Agrawal and Kenneth Tester

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2024

Prior studies show that taxes matter for the residential locations of high-income earners. But states raise a significant share of revenue from nonresidents. Using variation in state tax rates, we provide causal evidence on the effect of the net-of-tax ra...

Corporate Taxation and Evasion Responses: Evidence from a Minimum Tax in Honduras

By Felipe Lobel, Thiago Scot, and Pedro Zúniga

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2024

We study corporate responses to a minimum income tax, using the universe of corporate tax filings in Honduras. The policy design allows us to separately estimate cost misreporting under profit taxation and the elasticity of reported revenue. Large corpora...

Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved the Performance of US State Supreme Courts

By Elliott Ash and W. Bentley MacLeod

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2024

This paper provides evidence on how mandatory retirement influences judge performance using reforms in US state supreme courts as a natural experiment. We find that introducing mandatory retirement improves court performance as measured by output (number ...

Local Retail Prices, Product Variety, and Neighborhood Change

By Fernando Borraz, Felipe Carozzi, Nicolás González- Pampillón, and Leandro Zipitría

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2024

We study how local grocery markets within a city are affected by changes in housing markets. Our empirical strategy exploits a shift in the spatial distribution of construction activity induced by a large-scale, place-based tax exemption in the city of Mo...

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Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2024

Does the Value-Added Tax Add Value? Lessons Using Administrative Data from a Diverse Set of Countries

[Symposium: Taxation and Developing Countries]

By Anne Brockmeyer ⓡ Giulia Mascagni ⓡ Vedanth Nair ⓡ Mazhar Waseem ⓡ Miguel Almunia

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2024

The value-added tax (VAT) is a cornerstone of the modern tax system. It has many desirable properties in theory: it does not distort firms' production decisions, it is difficult to evade, and it generates a substantial amount of revenue. Yet, in many co...

The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the Panic of 2023

By Andrew Metrick

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2024

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10, 2023 brought attention to significant weaknesses across the banking system, leading to a panic that spread to other vulnerable banks. With subsequent failures of Signature Bank and First Republic Bank, the U...

Is Pay Transparency Good?

By Zoë Cullen

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2024

Countries around the world are enacting pay transparency policies to combat pay discrimination. Since 2000, 71 percent of OECD countries have done so. Most are enacting transparency horizontally, revealing pay between coworkers doing similar work within...

Immigration and Crime: An International Perspective

By Olivier Marie and Paolo Pinotti

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2024

The association between immigration and crime has long been a subject of debate, and only recently have we encountered systematic empirical evidence on this issue. Data shows that immigrants, often younger, male, and less educated compared to natives, a...