Eric Zwick
Biographic Data
| ID | 3960710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Zwick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Zwick |
| SIGNATURE | ZWICK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eric Zwick is Associate Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois. |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-3060-707X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lessons from the Biggest Business Tax Cut in US History
We assess the business provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the biggest corporate tax cut in US history. We draw five lessons. First, corporate tax revenue fell by 40 percent due to the lower rate and more generous expensing. Second, firms with larger declines in their effective tax wedge increased investment relatively more. In aggregate, we suggest a loose consensus from the literature that total tangible corporate investment increased…
Business Incomes at the Top
Business income constitutes a large and increasing share of income and wealth at the top of the distribution. We discuss how tax policy treats and shapes how businesses are organized and how they distribute economic gains to owners, with the focus on closely held and pass-through firms. These considerations influence whether and how labor and capital income is observed in economic data and feed into research controversies regarding the measuremen…
Business Incomes at the Top
Business income constitutes a large and increasing share of income and wealth at the top of the distribution. We discuss how tax policy treats and shapes how businesses are organized and how they distribute economic gains to owners, with the focus on closely held and pass-through firms. These considerations influence whether and how labor and capital income is observed in economic data and feed into research controversies regarding the measuremen…
Business Incomes at the Top
Business income constitutes a large and increasing share of income and wealth at the top of the distribution. We discuss how tax policy treats and shapes how businesses are organized and how they distribute economic gains to owners, with the focus on closely held and pass-through firms. These considerations influence whether and how labor and capital income is observed in economic data and feed into research controversies regarding the measuremen…
Lessons from the Biggest Business Tax Cut in US History
We assess the business provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the biggest corporate tax cut in US history. We draw five lessons. First, corporate tax revenue fell by 40 percent due to the lower rate and more generous expensing. Second, firms with larger declines in their effective tax wedge increased investment relatively more. In aggregate, we suggest a loose consensus from the literature that total tangible corporate investment increased…
Corporate Taxation and Avoidance (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (2 works) · Business (1 work) · Capital income (1 work) · Economic inequality (1 work) · Gross income (1 work) · Income distribution (1 work) · Income shares (1 work) · Income tax (1 work)