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Corporate Deductibility Provisions and Managerial Incentives

Köthenbürger, Marko; Stimmelmayr, Michael - CESifo - 2013

Using an agency model of firm behavior, the paper analyzes whether the cost of investment should be tax exempt. The findings suggest that, when managers engage in wasteful capital expenditures, welfare may decline if the cost of investment is tax deductible, as commonly advocated. The extent to...

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Corporate Taxation and Corporate Governance

Köthenbürger, Marko; Stimmelmayr, Michael - CESifo - 2009

The effects of corporate taxation on firm behavior have been extensively discussed in the neoclassical model of firm behavior which abstracts from agency problems. As emphasized by the corporate governance literature, corporate investment behavior is however crucially influenced by diverging...

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Liquidity Shortages and Monetary Policy

Cao, Jin; Illing, Gerhard - CESifo - 2008

pure illiquidity risk. It is shown that, when bad states are highly unlikely, public provision of liquidity may improve the … an incentive of financial intermediaries to free ride on liquidity in good states, resulting in excessively low liquidity … more liquid investment. In that case, liquidity injection will make the free riding problem even worse. The results show …

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Financial Fragility, Bubbles and Monetary Policy

Illing, Gerhard - CESifo - 2001

prevent a run on financial intermediation by injecting liquidity when asset values fall significantly. The inflationary side … a central bank to inject liquidity in a crisis. …

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Global Financial Transmission of Monetary Policy Shocks

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - CESifo - 2006

The paper shows that US monetary policy has been an important determinant of global equity markets. Analysing 50 equity markets worldwide, we find that returns fall on average around 3.8% in response to a 100 basis point tightening of US monetary policy, ranging from a zero response in some to a...

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