The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (the Act) creates a temporary tax holiday that effectively reduces the U.S. tax rate on repatriations from foreign subsidiaries from 35 percent to 5.25 percent. Firms receive the reduced tax rate by electing to take an 85 percent dividends received...

Originally published in The Tax Lawyer, this article provides a comprehensive review of existing corporate tax integration literature (e.g. economic journals, NBER working papers, Treasury and ALI Reports, law reviews, and other academic literature). It also explores partial integration under...

We explore the impact of market structure on the ex-day price anomaly. Measuring the price-drop ratio (hereafter PDR) as the ratio of the price change on the ex-day to the dividend amount, we find that the average Nasdaq PDR is significantly less than one and significantly less than the NYSE...

Stocks that initiate dividends tend to comove more with other dividend-paying stocks and comove less with non-dividend payers. This is also true for: (a) dividend initiations that are motivated by the exogenous 2003 dividend tax cut; and (b) the cash dividend share class of Citizens Utilities...

The 2012 Dividend Tax Reform in China uniquely ties individual investors' dividend tax rates to the length of their share holding period. We find that firms facing a reduction in their individual investors' dividend tax rate are more likely to increase dividend payout, initiate dividends, and...

We use dividend-paying Nasdaq-listed firms as a setting to test various explanations of the ex-day price anomaly. Similar to NYSE-listed firms, on average the prices of Nasdaq-listed firms drop by less than the dividend amount on the ex-day. However, the average price-drop is half that observed...

The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 created a tax holiday allowing firms to repatriate foreign earnings at a reduced tax rate and a domestic production activities deduction (DPAD) to encourage domestic investment. We investigate whether the DPAD affects firms' decisions to use repatriated...

Corporate investors putatively seek high dividends because marginal tax rates on dividends are lower than those on capital gains. However, a lower tax quot;ratequot; does not necessarily mean that a higher dividend is desirable. Taking the intertemporal consumption choices given, corporate...

The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (the Act) creates a temporary tax holiday that effectively reduces the U.S. tax rate on repatriations from foreign subsidiaries from 35 percent to 5.25 percent. Firms receive the reduced tax rate by electing to take an 85 percent dividends received...

We examine three alternative explanations for excess endowments in not-for-profit firms: (1) growth opportunities, (2) monitoring, or (3) agency problems. Inconsistent with growth opportunities, we find that most excess endowments are persistent over time, and that firms with persistent excess...