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Interest Rates, Inflation, and Consumer Expenditures

Warren E. Weber
- 01 Jan 1975 - 
- Vol. 65, Iss: 5, pp 843-858
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This article is published in The American Economic Review.The article was published on 1975-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 72 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fisher hypothesis & Real interest rate.

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Redistributive taxation in a simple perfect foresight model

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Economic Foundations of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

TL;DR: It is shown how a cost-effectiveness criterion can be derived to guide resource allocation decisions, and how it varies with age, gender, income level, and risk aversion.
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Demography of risk aversion

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Taxation, Saving and the Rate of Interest

TL;DR: In this paper, a variety of functional forms, estimation methods, and definitions of the real after-tax rate of return invariably lead to the conclusion of a substantial interest elasticity of saving and the implications of this result for the analysis of the efficiency and equity of the current U.S. tax treatment of income from capital are explored.
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The Welfare Cost of Capital Income Taxation in a Growing Economy

TL;DR: In this paper, the welfare cost of capital income taxation is analyzed in a general equilibrium framework, where the private sector is represented by a competitive household endowed with perfect foresight and an infinite life.
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