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The efficiency costs of dividend taxation with managerial firms : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, April 2015
Köthenbürger, Marko; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2015
The paper analyzes the efficiency costs of dividend taxation in an effort-based corporate agency model in which non …-verifiable managerial effort enhances taxable profits. We show that investment changes following a rise in dividend taxes might not be … sufficient to infer the efficiency cost of dividend taxation as well as the financing regime of the firm that underlies the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374208
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Market competition or family ties : which prevails on Italian CEOs pay?
Graziano, Clara; Rondi, Laura - 2015 - This draft: June 8, 2015
The paper analyzes the interplay of product market competition and governance on CEO compensation in Italian listed firms from 2000 to 2011 and tests the impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis on pay-performance sensitivity. We argue that important differences both in the level of compensation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280832
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Corporate deductibility provisions and managerial incentives
Köthenbürger, Marko; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2013
Using an agency model of firm behavior, the paper analyzes whether the cost of investment should be tax exempt. The findings suggest that, when managers engage in wasteful capital expenditures, welfare may decline if the cost of investment is tax deductible, as commonly advocated. The extent to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227267
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A theory of tax avoidance : managerial incentives for tax planning in a multi-task principal-agent model
Ewert, Ralf; Niemann, Rainer - 2014
We derive determinants of tax avoidance by means of a multi-task principal-agent model. We extend prevailing models by integrating both corporate and individual income taxation as well as by including tax planning effort in the agent’s action portfolio. Our model shows novel and apparently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010367166
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The bright side of the GDPR : welfare-improving privacy management
Choe, Chongwoo; Matsushima, Noriaki; Shekhar, Shiva - 2023
We study the GDPR's opt-in requirement in a model with a firm that provides a digital service and consumers who are heterogeneous in their valuations of the firm's service as well as the privacy costs incurred when sharing personal data with the firm. We show that the GDPR boosts demand for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014334058
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All in the family or public? : law and appropriative costs as determinants of ownership structure
Castillo C., Ramón; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2003
We examine how the legal protection of outside shareholders and the appropriative costs that they induce influence the incentives for private firms to go public. A higher degree of protection of shareholders can increase the appropriative costs associated with the conflict between managers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507775
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Corporate taxation and corporate governance
Köthenbürger, Marko; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2009
The effects of corporate taxation on firm behavior have been extensively discussed in the neoclassical model of firm behavior which abstracts from agency problems. As emphasized by the corporate governance literature, corporate investment behavior is however crucially influenced by diverging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923146
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Age-targeted income taxation, labor supply, and retirement
Gustafsson, Johan - 2021
This paper studies the life-cycle effects of favorable marginal tax treatment of older workers on their optimal life cycle labor supply, retirement timing, and savings. I develop a structural model in continuous time where the life-cycle of a representative agent is divided into three distinct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495695
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Eliciting individual preferences for pension reform
Fourati, Yosr Abid; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009
Pension systems have recently been under scrutiny because of the expected population ageing threatening its sustainability. This paper's contribution to the debate is from a political economic perspective as it uses data from a Choice Experiment to investigate individual preferences for an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883028
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Uncertain longevity and investment in education
Sheshinski, Eytan - 2009
It has been argued that increased life expectancy raises the rate of return on education, causing a rise in the investment in education followed by an increase in lifetime labor supply. Empirical evidence of these relations is rather weak. Building on a lifecycle model with uncertain longevity,...
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