interest deductibility. This paper sets up a model of corporate finance and investment in a small open economy to quantify the … would arise partly from a fall in the social risks associated with corporate investment, and partly from the cut in the …

In the absence of financing frictions, profit taxes reduce investment by their effect on the user cost of capital. With … finance constraints due to moral hazard, investment becomes sensitive to cash-flow and own equity of firms. We propose a … corporate finance model of investment and derive three central results: (i) Even small taxes impose first order welfare losses …

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 …

The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological … factors, finance, return expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. We show that … these subjective investment determinants 1) capture economically what their labels suggest, and 2) have strong explanatory …