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We analyze the extent of the integrated control of the state over privatized firms during the post-privatization decade (1995–2005) in the Czech Republic. During this period the integrated control potential of the state resembled a corporate pyramid. While pyramidal control was not fully...
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When one firm's strategy affects other firms' value, optimal executive incentives depend on whether shareholders have interests in only one or in multiple firms. Performance-sensitive contracts induce managerial effort to reduce costs, and lower costs induce higher output. Hence, greater...
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We analyze the extent of the integrated control of the state over privatized firms during the post-privatization decade (1995–2005) in the Czech Republic. During this period the integrated control potential of the state resembled a corporate pyramid. While pyramidal control was not fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155937
-tax country induces bunching. Such bunching promotes investment incentives in the low-tax as well as the high-tax country. In … equilibrium, affiliates might over-invest and the bunching-related investment effects generate a tendency for too high profit … investment incentives and transfer pricing induces inefficiently low taxes …
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-verifiable managerial effort enhances taxable profits. We show that investment changes following a rise in dividend taxes might not be … investment response, in contrast to insights from previous literature. We provide a testable implication to infer the mode of … investment finance from investment responses. Furthermore, we show that imposing income tax on managerial incentive pay is …
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data and triple-difference estimators, we find that this dividend tax cut affects allocation of corporate investment. Cash …-constrained firms increase investment after the dividend tax cut relative to cash-rich firms. Reallocation is stronger among closely … and by higher dividends in cash-rich firms after the tax cut. The heterogeneous investment responses imply that the …
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firms in making their investment decisions.We use a revealed preference approach that relies on the pattern of investment … spending – combined with investment theory – to estimate the discount rates used by managers. The standard story predicts that … firms with high stock prices and good investment opportunities should have discount rates that do not differ systematically …
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Is real investment fully determined by fundamentals or is it sometimes affected by stock market misvaluation? We … introduce three new tests that: measure the reaction of investment to sales shocks for firms that may be overvalued; use Fama … misvaluation into standard investment equations to estimate the quantitative effect of misvaluation on investment. Overall, the …
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data and triple-difference estimators, we find that this dividend tax cut affects allocation of corporate investment. Cash …-constrained firms increase investment after the dividend tax cut relative to cash-rich firms. Reallocation is stronger among closely … and by higher dividends in cash-rich firms after the tax cut. The heterogeneous investment responses imply that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047347
explaining the consumption path after a Marginal Efficiency of Investment shock. We use an otherwise standard medium-scale New …
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