Romney vs. Obama on Corporate Tax Reform

Alan Auerbach cited in The Wall Street Journal, March 14, 2012

Modern economic theory and empirical evidence—including a series of papers by one of us (Hassett) and Alan Auerbach of the University of California, Berkeley—show that raising taxes on dividends at the individual level increases the cost of equity capital and lowers asset prices, harming consumers while hindering firms’ ability to hire workers.