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Dividend Taxation and Firm Performance with Heterogeneous Payout Responses
Bilicka, Katarzyna Anna; Güçeri, Irem; Koumanakos, … - 2023
We analyze the short and long-run performance of firms that were differentially affected by a new tax on dividends in the lead-up to the Global Financial Crisis. We use exogenous policy variation for firms with different legal statuses and financial year-end dates to causally identify the...
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The equity trap, the cost of capital and the firm's growth path
Lindhe, Tobias; Södersten, Jan - 2006
This paper reconsiders Sinn's (1991) nucleus theory of the corporation by comparing two different regimes for the equity trap. In the first of these, all cash paid to the shareholders is taxed as dividends, in the second, shareholders are allowed a tax-free return of capital contributed through...
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Dividend taxation, share repurchases and the equity trap
Lindhe, Tobias; Södersten, Jan - 2009
This paper reconsiders the effects of dividend taxation. Particular attention is paid to the form of the equity trap …
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Neutral taxation of shareholder income?: corporate responses to an announced dividend tax
Alstadsæter, Annette; Fjaerli, Erik - 2009
tax rates on individual dividend income from zero to 28 percent. We document strong timing effects on dividend payout on a …
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How Do Entrepreneurial Portfolios Respond to Taxation?
Fossen, Frank; Rees, Ray; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; … - 2017
We investigate how personal income taxes affect the portfolio share of personal wealth that entrepreneurs invest in their own business. In a reformulation of the standard portfolio choice model that allows for underreporting of private business income to tax authorities, we show that a fall in...
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The start-up and growth stages in enterprise formation : the"new view" of dividend taxation reconsidered
Kanniainen, Vesa; Kari, Seppo; Ylä-Liedenpohja, Jouko - 2005
to a dividend tax is above the old view double-tax one, (iii) the start-up investment is not affected by undervaluation …, but the discouragement engendered by dividend taxation is compensated by realization-based capital gains tax, (iv) with … suggests, (v) without undervaluation, the dividend tax boosts expansion investment. …
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Optimal Firms's Dividend and Capital Structure for Mean Reverting Profitability
Menoncin, Francesco; Panteghini, Paolo M.; Regis, Luca - 2021
solved in a quasiexplicit form by computing both the optimal dividend and the optimal debt. Finally, we calibrate the model … particular, our results show that the optimal dividend is smooth over time and that leverage is predominantly constant over time …
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Who Participates in Tax Avoidance?
Alstadsæter, Annette; Jacob, Martin - 2013
This paper analyzes the sources of heterogeneity in legal tax avoidance strategies across individuals. Three conditions are required for a taxpayer to participate in tax avoidance: incentive, access, and awareness. Using rich Swedish administrative panel data with a unique link between corporate...
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Investor Taxation, Firm Heterogeneity and Capital Structure Choice
Haring, Magdalena; Niemann, Rainer; Rünger, Silke - 2016
We analyze the effect of investor level taxes, firm-specific ownership structure and firm-specific payout policy on firms' capital structure choice. Our analysis is based on data for 10,983 firms from 13 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries over the time period 2002-2012. Our results...
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Public Finance in a Nutshell: A Cobb-Douglas Teaching Tool for General Equilibrium Tax Incidence and Excess Burden
Fullerton, Don; Ta, Chi L. - 2016
To help first- or second-year graduate students in economics apply their theoretical training, this paper shows how to solve a simple and intuitive computable general equilibrium (CGE) model using a calculator. Because this simplified Harberger model uses Cobb Douglas functional forms for...
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