Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Tax incidence

Just to make things perfectly clear, Yglesias points us to some nice graphs. It really doesn't matter whether the law taxes the business or the consumer. The only thing that matters is the relative elasticity:

The link to more is here.
Incidence1 1
What does make a difference is changing your assumptions about elasticity:
Incidence2 1

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