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We analyze how interactions between corporate taxation and corporate governance affect shareholder capital. Using a … model with strategic interaction between managers and outside shareholders, we hypothesize that, while an increase in the …
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The introduction of the 2006 Norwegian shareholder income tax was announced in advance, and it increased top marginal tax rates on individual dividend income from zero to 28 percent. We document strong timing effects on dividend payout on a large panel of non-listed corporations, with a surge of...
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This paper examines the impact of thin capitalization rules that limit the tax deductibility of interest on the capital structure of the foreign affiliates of US multinationals. We construct a new data set on thin capitalization rules in 54 countries for the period 1982-2004. Using confidential...
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Using a large international firm-level data set, we estimate separate effects of host and parent country taxation on … the location decisions of multinational firms. Both types of taxation are estimated to have a negative impact on the … location of new foreign subsidiaries. In fact, the impact of parent country taxation is estimated to be relatively large …
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This paper proposes and evaluates alternative methods for addressing the tax treatment of interest expenses in a multijurisdictional setting. The differential deductibility of debt entailed by various current tax law provisions leads to potential distortions in the patterns of asset ownership...
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Ownership takeovers often follow complex strategies where the control of the target firm is acquired through a sequence of independent contracts. Based on this observation, we develop a novel theoretical model wherein the acquiring firm decides on the number of steps towards the full ownership...
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increase in the debt ratio of 2.49 percentage points. Taking into account investor-level taxation and firm heterogeneity, an …
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Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide institutional reform on well-being. Changes in population heights are regarded as virtuous pointers of well-being improvements in psycho-social environments, which improve with...
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efficient APAs are concluded in equilibrium. International agreements to avoid double taxation will likely reduce the number of …
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suffer from omitted variable bias. -- corporate taxation ; multinationals ; capital structure ; international debt …
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