The effect of tax depreciation on the stochastic replacement policy

The optimal replacement policy for an asset subject to a stochastic deteriorating operating cost is determined for three different tax depreciation schedules and a known re-investment cost, as the solution to a two-factor model using a quasi-analytical method. We find that tax depreciation exerts a critical influence over the replacement policy by lowering the operating cost thresholds. Although typically a decline in the corporate tax rate, increase in any initial capital allowance, or decrease in the depreciation lifetime (increase in depreciation rate) results in a lower operating cost threshold which justifies replacing older equipment, these results are not universal, and indeed for younger age assets the result may be the opposite. An accelerating depreciation schedule may incentivize early replacement in a deterministic context, but not necessarily for an environment of uncertainty.     

The effect of depreciation allowances on the timing of investment and government tax revenue

We develop a model of the behavior of a potential investor (under uncertainty and in a fiscal environment) who wishes to invest into a project in the real sector of an economy and faces a timing problem. We find an optimal solution within this model and examine the dependence of the tax revenue from the newly created firm on the depreciation policy. It is shown that there exists a domain in the space of the parameters of the investment project where both the tax revenue and the incentives can be increased by using the depreciation policy.     

Depreciation games

The main aim of this paper is to show how Game Theory can be used in the day-to-day running of a company. No precedent, as far as we know, in the literature of the application of Cooperative Game Theory in order to obtain new depreciation methods for a fixed asset which is owned by a company. To this end, we will first illustrate the usual depreciation methods employed in accountancy. Then, with the objective of finding new depreciation methods, we will establish the relationship between Game Theory and Accountancy. On the basis of this relationship we introduce some new depreciation methods. Finally, a family of solutions is defined which improves the properties of traditional and previously introduced methods. Financial support from the Generalitat Valenciana through project GV05/077 is gratefully acknowledged by J. Aparicio. Financial support from the Generalitat Valenciana through project GRUPOS04/79 and from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia through project HI2002/0032 are gratefully acknowledged by J. Sánchez-Soriano.     

具有人力资本和科技进步的经济增长模型研究

通过引入新的变量,将二维非自治动力系统转化为二维自治的动力系统,得到包含教育,实物资本,人口和技术进步的经济增长模型.证明二维自治动力系统存在唯一的平衡点且为结点.对于给定的初始状态,模型描述的经济存在一条增长路径.通过对模型动态性质的讨论,得出维持经济长期增长的关键因素是技术进步.最后,讨论了死亡率、折旧率和对教育的投资对经济增长的影响,得出在相同的生育率的情况下,死亡率越低,经济增长越快;低折旧率对应于高经济增长,加大教育的投入也可有效地促进经济增长.     

Stationary dual prices and depreciation

This paper models a machine replacement and capacity expansion problem as an infinite-horizon linear program. We establish a strong duality result and show that stationary dual prices are optimal, regardless of initial conditions. These prices measure the economic value of owning vintage machinery and thus define depreciation schedules. We present necessary and sufficient conditions for straight-line depreciation.This work was partially supported by grants ECS-8312008 and ECS-8619732 from the National Science Foundation.     

固定资产折旧方法比较

固定资产折旧方法很多,常见的有直线折旧法、工作量法、双倍余额递减法和年数总和法。直线折旧法的优点是简单明了、易于掌握,缺点是没有考虑固定资产的利用程度和使用强度;年数总和法是以递减分数作为折旧率,分别乘以固定资产净值的折旧方法。相比而言,它是一种比较合理、系统的方法     

政府投资环保的随机增长模型

本文分析了一个带有污染的随机内生增长模型.利用随机最优化的方法,求出了最优的政府环保投资比率和最优的税收政策.并进一步得出了最优的收入税因污染的外部性指标、生产的扰动的增大而减少;而最优消费税则因这两个参数的增大而增加的结论.     

房地产开发活动均衡分析与过度开发行为控制

在把房地产投资开发项目看作为一种具有弱再生性经济资源的基点上,对房地产投资开发活动进行了均衡分析,讨论了房地产开发活动中的最优平衡解及其相互之间的制约关系,分析了税收和配额价格等经济参数对最优平衡解的影响,给出了抑制房地产过度投资开发行为的控制模型与方法,并得出了相应的政策启示.这些研究结果,可以推广应用于其他各种可再生资源的投资开发与管理当中去,有着广泛的应用前景.     

人力资本与教育的随机扰动模型

在一个带有生产扰动和公共支出扰动的随机模型中,把教育的产出--人力资本引入效用函数和生产函数,利用随机最优化方法,确定了最优经济增长率和最优个体教育投资率.通过分析参数,得出了最优税率.     

两部门内生增长模型中财政政策的短期分析

在一个两部门内生增长模型中,讨论政府财政政策变化对居民消费,资本积累以及经济增长的长期影响和短期影响.发现在短期内,政府增加资本收入税不仅可以增加居民消费,而且可以刺激人力资本积累,从而刺激短期经济增长.但是政府财政政策改变对长期经济增长不产生影响,而且资本收入税会降低长期的消费水平和资本存量.另外,从经济增长形态和消费者福利两个角度讨论了资本收入税的无效性.     

Optimal tax depreciation with uncertain future cash-flows

Since taxable income consists of cash-flows reduced with depreciation charges, the choice of the depreciation method affects taxable income in future periods. A manager can therefore try to minimize the present value of future tax payments by choosing a particular depreciation method among those that are accepted by the tax authorities. We focus here on the choice between the two most commonly used methods in practice, i.e. the straight line depreciation method (SDM) and an accelerated depreciation method (ADM), such as the double declining balance (DDB) method and the sum of the years–digits (SYD) method. We show how the optimal choice depends on the discount factor, the degree of uncertainty in future cash-flows, and the structure of the tax system.     

特朗普政策对中国马歇尔-勒纳条件影响研究

中美贸易关系在特朗普上台后显得愈发紧张, 新一轮大国博弈中, 人民币汇率依旧是双方争论的焦点, 然而人民币贬值对于贸易差额的影响还应考虑到马歇尔~勒纳条件的变化。本文基于2005.7~2017.12月度数据, 结合理论政策机理分析并基于传统定义法点弹性、贸易平衡方程弧弹性以及改进的推算法点弹性测算了马歇尔-勒纳条件, 运用Bayesian-VAR模型实证检验了特朗普政策对中美双边马歇尔-勒纳条件造成的影响, 结果发现:(1)中美双边马歇尔-勒纳条件成立。(2)特朗普退出TPP和减少国内企业税赋的政策对马歇尔-勒纳条件有正向冲击作用, 而加强中国对美投资监管对马歇尔-勒纳条件值有负向冲击作用。在稳健性检验中, 退出TPP和投资监管政策依然有效。(3)特朗普政策对我国马歇尔-勒纳条件短期具有改善作用, 在此条件下人民币汇率短期贬值有利于促进贸易顺差, 长期内不具有可持续性。中国近期大力推行的“对等, 开放”贸易方针对改善经常项目、提振经济基本面、维持汇率长期稳定具有有效性。     

资产组合,随机经济增长和政府政策的影响

本文在一个连续时间的经济增长模型中考虑政府政策、投资策略和个体福利 .在给定的生产技术 ,偏好和随机冲击的假设下 ,本文得到了持有资产税后期望回报、随机经济增长率、消费财富比、资产组合份额和各种资产实际回报率的显式解 .     

基于面板数据模型的研发投入影响因素区域异质性研究——基于医药制造业样本的实证分析

基于面板数据模型研究了新产品经济产出、税收优惠、人力资本等因素对我国东中西部地区医药制造业研发资金投入强度影响.研究发现:1)东中西部地区在R&D投入影响因素上存在差异,其中人力资本、企业内部研发资金投入、税收优惠因素对东部地区R&D投入的显著作用依次增强;2)政府研发资金投入、人力资本、税收优惠、盈利能力对中部地区R&D投入的显著作用依次增强,而新产品经济产出呈现负向作用;3)企业内部研发资金投入对西部地区R&D投入显著作用强于人力资本因素,企业规模、税收优惠呈现出负向作用.建议我国应因地制宜采取相应对策,有效提高东中西部地区医药制造业R&D研发投入,进一步促进我国医药制造业创新能力和水平.     

Environmental tax policy,habit formation and nonlinear dynamics

In this paper, we study the impact of environmental tax policy on the dynamic property in an environment-growth model (John and Pecchenino 1994) [3]. We assume that the government levies consumption tax and uses the tax revenue to improve environmental quality. We show that the economic dynamics can be represented by a first-order difference equation in environmental quality when there is no habit formation of environmental quality. If agents have habit formation of environmental quality, the economic dynamics will be represented by a second-order difference equation in environmental quality. In both cases, chaotic and cyclical fluctuations may exist if agents’ preference towards environmental quality, the maintenance efficiency relative to degradation and the tax rate are sufficiently low. However, the economy undergoes transformation from complex dynamics to simple dynamics as the tax rate increases. Furthermore, in the presence of habit formation of environmental quality, an increase in the degree of habit formation lowers the possibility of complex dynamics.     

Pricing a stochastic car value depreciation deal

This paper deals with pricing a contract under which a dealer buys back a car from a client, for a cash amount contained in a given depreciation table. The value of the car is supposed to depreciate according to a stochastic model with random repairs modeled by a Poisson process. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于可计算一般均衡模型的出口退税政策效应分析

使用Chinagem模型计算了我国2010年6月份出口退税率下调对我国经济以及各行业的影响.研究表明,此次调整导致我国GDP实际减小0.016%,投资、出口与进口分别下降0.075%、0.041%与0.116%,居民消费和政府消费上升0.005%,就业下降0.016%,两高一资行业受挫较大.同时,各个行业实施出口退税时,对该行业的影响表现为:将直接导致行业出口价格上升,出口量下降,从而国内销售部分增加;由于国内供给增加,进口有所减少;而总产出的变化则由于行业不同而呈现出不同的变化.与此同时,各个行业出口退税率的变化将导致上游行业产出下降,下游行业产出增长.     

服务贸易出口退税政策优化及国际竞争力评价

服务贸易出口退税政策事关服务贸易逆差的缩小及国际竞争力的提升。为探索我国服务贸易出口退税政策的优化方式及其对服务贸易国际竞争力的影响程度,文章构建中国服务贸易出口退税动态可计算一般均衡模型(ET-DCGE),对建筑服务业、旅游业、金融业、咨询业和其他服务业设计包括零税率、免税向零税率过渡和增加退税率档次等方式的出口退税政策优化模拟方案。结果显示,在全部实行零税率政策下,服务业贸易逆差降低程度和国际竞争力提升程度最大。     

Decision model and analysis for investment interest expense deduction and allocation

Investment income tax planning requires informed, strategic choices. One must determine the amount of qualified dividends and net long-term capital gain to be included in investment income (against which investment interest expense can be deducted). This choice also determines the residual qualified dividends and net long-term capital gain which enjoy a reduced tax rate. Another important decision is whether all or some of this interest expense should be deducted in the current year or carried forward. This paper puts forward a new approach to formulate these questions as a generalized resource allocation problem which permits analysis of the interdependence between, and the tax consequences of, the above decisions. The commonly used approach – deducting investment interest expense sooner rather than later – we consider myopic since the benefit of deferring some of the deduction is not leveraged. Presented here is a tax planning guideline (a necessary and sufficient condition for optimality) to realize a more forward-looking strategy. We also show that, for certain income structures, the tax savings by deducting a one-dollar investment interest expense may be more than the tax rate on the dollar of investment income that is offset.     

POLLUTION, GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE, TAXES AND STOCHASTIC GROWTH

This paper studies a stochastic endogenous growth model with pollution. It introduces government expenditure and exogenous pollution abatement technology to eliminate pollution and proves that under appropriate equilibrium conditions the main economic indexes （including economic growth rate, the optimal government expenditure rate） in the centrally planned economy and decentralized economy can be expressed by the parameters of the model uniquely. The optimal tax policy is analyzed ,and the optimal pollution is derived.