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All you need is cash : corporate cash holdings and investment after the global financial crisis

Joseph, Andreas; Kneer, Christiane; Horen, Neeltje van - 2021

Cash holdings at the onset of a financial crisis are a key determinant of investment by SMEs not only during the crisis but also during the recovery period. Cash-rich SMEs could maintain their capital stock during the global financial crisis, while cash-poor rivals reduced theirs. This gave...

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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...

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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...

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Auctions and corruption

Lengwiler, Yvan; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2000

In many auctions, the auctioneer is an agent of the seller. This delegation invites corruption. In this paper we … propose a model of corruption, examine how corruption affects the auction game, how the anticipation of corruption affects … that may prevent corruption, and compare them to the fee schedules employed by major auction houses. …

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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...

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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...

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Cash in hand and savings decisions

Spantig, Lisa - 2019

Cash is an important means of transaction, generally assumed to be fungible. However, behavioral economics and consumer research show that "cash in hand", physically holding on to cash and then handing it away, affects purchasing decisions. I study how cash in hand influences decisions in a...

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Term structure and cyclicity of value-at-risk : consequences for the solvency capital requirement

Bec, Frédérique; Gollier, Christian - 2009

This paper explores empirically the link between French equities returns Value-at-Risk (VaR) and the state of financial markets cycle. The econometric analysis is based on a simple vector autoregression setup. Using quarterly data from 1970Q4 to 2008Q3, it turns out that the k-year VaR of French...

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Debt recovery in firm liquidations : do liquidation trustees matter?

Cepec, Jaka; Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina - 2016

Insolvency systems play a crucial role in protection of creditor rights, yet micro-level empirical evidence on the functioning of insolvency regimes worldwide is sparse. We investigate whether creditors' recovery of outstanding claims, a measure of ex-post efficiency of an insolvency regime,...

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The debt-to-GDP ratio as a tool for debt management : not good for LICs

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2023

There have been criticisms of debt sustainability analysis in general, including the IMF's own evaluation of the usefulness of its debt sustainability methodology (e.g., IMF, 2017). This paper's focus is narrow. On the basis of theoretical arguments and empirical evidence, it argues that the...

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