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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151562 |