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PCIT: Data set on Personal and Corporate Income Tax

Description

The data set PCIT consists of quarterly observations for

  • the average personal income tax rates \(APITR\),

  • the average corporate income tax rates \(ACITR\),

  • the logarithm of the personal income tax base \(PITB\),

  • the logarithm of the corporate income tax base \(CITB\),

  • the logarithm of government spending \(GOV\),

  • the logarithm of GDP divided by population \(RGDP\), and

  • the logarithm of government debt held by the public divided by the GDP deflator and population \(DEBT\).

Moreover, the proxies for shocks to personal \(m\_PI\) and corporate \(m\_CI\) income taxes are prepended, where non-zero observations from the related narratively identified shock series \(T\_PI\) resp. \(T\_CI\) have been demeaned. The data set covers the period Q1 1950 to Q4 2006 \((T=228)\) for the US.

Usage

data("PCIT")

Arguments

Format

A time series data set of class 'data.frame', where the column id_t indicates the quarter of the year.

References

Mertens, K., and Ravn, M. O. (2013): "The Dynamic Effects of Personal and Corporate Income Tax Changes in the United States", American Economic Review, 103, pp. 1212-1247.

Jentsch, C., and Lunsford, K. G. (2019): "The Dynamic Effects of Personal and Corporate Income Tax Changes in the United States: Comment", American Economic Review, 109, pp. 2655-2678.

Mertens, K., and Ravn, M. O. (2019): "The Dynamic Effects of Personal and Corporate Income Tax Changes in the United States: Reply", American Economic Review, 109, pp. 2679-2691.

See Also

Other data sets: ERPT, EURO, EU_w, ICAP, MDEM, MERM, PCAP