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President regarding intercorporate dividend taxation. Foreign governments may find the American experience of value should they …
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Public corporations live in a dynamic and ever-changing business environment. This paper examines how courts and legislators should choose default arrangements in the corporate area to address new circumstances. We show that the interests of the shareholders of existing companies would not be...
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We use the Business Roundtable's challenge to the SEC's 2010 proxy access rule as a natural experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional...
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Many firms have stockholders who face severe restrictions on their ability to sell their shares and diversify the risk of their personal wealth. We study the costs of these liquidity restrictions on stockholders using a continuous-time portfolio choice framework. These restrictions have major...
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This paper presents an overview of the history of corporate governance in the United States, emphasizing the period before the advent of federal securities laws and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Recent research has overturned many widely accepted beliefs about corporate...
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We examine the hypothesis that dividend taxes are capitalized into share prices by focusing on investors' implicit …-in equity is distributable as a tax-free return of capital. Consistent with dividend tax capitalization, firm-level results for … addition, differences in dividend tax rates across U.S. tax regimes are associated with predictable differences in the …
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between the log dividend-price ratio and mathematical expectations of future log real dividend changes and future real … dividend growth, measured real discount rates and unexplained factors in determining the dividend-price ratio …
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expected present discounted value of its dividend stream, with a constant discount rate. The inequality states that if this … the innovation in the dividend. The bound is valid even if prices and dividends are nonstationary.The inequality is used …
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This paper tests several competing hypotheses about the economic effects of dividend taxation. It employs British data … on security returns, dividend payout rates, and corporate investment, because unlike the United States, Britain has … experienced several major dividend tax reforms in the last three decades. These tax changes provide an ideal natural experiment …
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This paper uses British data to examine the effects of dividend taxes on investors' relative valuation of dividends and … radical changes and several minor reforms in British dividend tax policy during the last twenty-five years. Studying the … data on a much broader sample, we find clear evidence that taxes change equilibrium relationships between dividend yields …
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