Inflation, Taxation and Corporate Investment in the U.S. During the Great Inflation

U.S. corporate taxation is not neutral to inflation. Two of its features – historical cost depreciation and FIFO inventory accounting – are expected to lower real after-tax corporate cash flows and, thereby, make investment less attractive when expected inflation is elevated. Using Compustat data fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Usenko, Yevhenii
Other Authors: Verner, Emil
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151562