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Lobbying for Capital Tax Benefits and Misallocation of Resources during a Credit Crunch / Zaourak, Gabriel.
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- Author/Creator:
- Zaourak, Gabriel.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies.
- Common Carriers Industry.
- Construction Industry.
- Credit Crunch.
- Economic Adjustment and Lending.
- Energy.
- Financial Frictions.
- Food & Beverage Industry.
- General Manufacturing.
- Industry.
- International Economics & Trade.
- International Trade and Trade Rules.
- Lobbying.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Misallocation.
- Plastics & Rubber Industry.
- Public Sector Development.
- Pulp & Paper Industry.
- Renewable Energy.
- Rural & Renewable Energy.
- Rural Development.
- Taxation & Subsidies.
- Textiles Apparel & Leather Industry.
- Local Subjects:
- Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies.
- Common Carriers Industry.
- Construction Industry.
- Credit Crunch.
- Economic Adjustment and Lending.
- Energy.
- Financial Frictions.
- Food & Beverage Industry.
- General Manufacturing.
- Industry.
- International Economics & Trade.
- International Trade and Trade Rules.
- Lobbying.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Misallocation.
- Plastics & Rubber Industry.
- Public Sector Development.
- Pulp & Paper Industry.
- Renewable Energy.
- Rural & Renewable Energy.
- Rural Development.
- Taxation & Subsidies.
- Textiles Apparel & Leather Industry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (62 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2018.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Corporations often have strong incentives to exert influence on the tax code and obtain additional tax benefits through lobbying. For the U.S. financial crisis of 2007-09, this paper shows that lobbying activity intensified, driven by large firms in sectors that depend more on external finance. Using a heterogeneous agent model with financial frictions and endogenous lobbying, the paper studies the aggregate consequences of this rise in lobbying activity. When calibrated to U.S. micro data, the model generates an increase in lobbying that matches the magnitude and the cross-sector and within-sector variation observed in the data. The analysis finds that lobbying for capital tax benefits, together with financial frictions, accounts for 80 percent of the decline in output and almost all the drop in total factor productivity observed during the crisis for the non-financial corporate sector. Relative to an economy without lobbying, this mechanism increases the dispersion in the marginal product of capital and amplifies the credit shock, leading to a one-third larger decline in output. The paper also studies the long run effects of lobbying. Restricting lobbying implies welfare gains of 0.3 percent after considering the transitional dynamics to the new steady state.
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