Matthew D. Shapiro Lawrence R. Klein Collegiate Professor of Economics Department of Economics University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109-1220 tel    734 764-5419 Fax  734 764-2769 shapiro @ umich.edu

Research on economic stimulus

Income Tax Rebates:  Lessons from the 2001 Advanced Payments

"Consumer Response to Tax Rebates" (Revised version, October 2002) by Matthew D. Shapiro and Joel Slemrod.  American Economic Review 93 (March 2003) 381-396  PDF file | Executive Summary | Survey Instrument.  Working paper version with regression analysis  Working Paper

"Did The 2001 Tax Rebate Stimulate Spending? Evidence From Taxpayer Surveys"  by Matthew D. Shapiro and Joel Slemrod.  Tax Policy and the Economy, ed James Poterba.  Cambridge:  MIT Press, 2003.    Revised October 2002 PDF file

Investment Incentives: Lessons from Bonus Depreciation

"Temporary Investment Tax Incentives: Theory with Evidence from Bonus Depreciation" by Christopher L. House and Matthew D. Shapiro. American Economic Review 98:3 (June 2008) 737-768.   PDF file | Summary from NBER Digest.

Overview

"Bush Stimulus May Have Only Modest Effect" by Christopher :L. House, Matthew D. Shapiro, and Joel Slemrod, Wall Street Journal Online (Jan. 10, 2008)

"Economists:  Most Stimulus Went Into Savings" by Matthew D. Shapiro and Joel Slemrod, Wall Street Journal Online (Aug. 8, 2008)

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