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100 1 _aKroft, Kory.
245 1 0 _aSalience and Taxation with Imperfect Competition /
_cKory Kroft, Jean-William P. Laliberté, René Leal-Vizcaíno, Matthew J. Notowidigdo.
260 _aCambridge, Mass.
_bNational Bureau of Economic Research
_c2020.
300 _a1 online resource:
_billustrations (black and white);
490 1 _aNBER working paper series
_vno. w27409
500 _aJune 2020.
520 3 _aThis paper studies commodity taxation in a model featuring heterogeneous consumers, imperfect competition, and tax salience. We derive new formulas for the incidence and marginal excess burden of commodity taxation, and we find that tax salience and market structure interact when considering tax incidence but do not directly interact when considering the marginal excess burden. We estimate the necessary inputs to the formulas by combining Nielsen Retail Scanner data from grocery stores in the US with detailed sales tax data. We calibrate our new formulas and conclude that the incidence of sales taxes on consumers is increasing in tax salience, and the marginal excess burden of taxation is larger than standard formulas that ignore imperfect competition and tax salience.
530 _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538 _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588 0 _aPrint version record
690 7 _aD12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aH2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aH25 - Business Taxes and Subsidies
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aH71 - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700 1 _aLaliberté, Jean-William P.
700 1 _aLeal-Vizcaíno, René.
700 1 _aNotowidigdo, Matthew J.
710 2 _aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 _aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)
_vno. w27409.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w27409
856 _yAcceso en línea al DOI
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w27409
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