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 …

This paper investigates the effects of increased cash dividend payout, and of "forced realizations~ of capital gains in … States, Great Britain, and Canada suggests that higher dividend tax rates lower consumption. This is consistent with such tax …

In collaboration with a state environmental regulator in India, we conducted a field experiment to raise the frequency … these results and recover the full costs of environmental regulation, we model the regulatory process as a dynamic discrete … costs of environmental regulation are largely reserved for extremely polluting plants. Applying the cost estimates to the …

and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both … the insurance market (which is the current regulatory practice in India and other developing countries), makes wage …

results suggest reformed incentives for third-party auditors can improve their reporting and make regulation more effective …

years of state commission regulation. Examples of an adaptive response pattern on the part of regulators, firms and …

quantitative estimates of the consequences of government regulation. We estimate the impact of restricting gender-based pricing in …