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I present a rationale for a government to discriminate between debt and equity financing when taxing corporate income. For risk-averse entrepreneurs, equity generates more surplus than debt, because it provides financing and insurance. A government seeking to extract surplus from entrepreneurs...
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This paper estimates the causal effect of corporate tax hikes on firm investment based on more than 1,400 local tax … changes. By observing planned and realized investment volumes in a representative sample of German manufacturing firms, we can … study how tax hikes induce firms to revise their investment decisions. On average, the share of firms that invest less than …
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Theory suggests that large firms are more likely to engage in lobbying behaviour and are geographically more mobile …
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The paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the latest German corporate income and capital tax reform, which entails a major shift of the capital tax burden from the firm to the household level. Using a dynamic two-country computable general equilibrium model with integrated capital...
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lenders and v) the business cycle effects on the spread between the high-yield and the investment-grade interest rates on …
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We extend Trade-Off Theory (TOT) by assuming that EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and …
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Theory recommends aligning the tax treatment of debt and equity. A few countries, notably Belgium, have introduced an …, passive investment, and active investment of multinational firms, using high-quality administrative data on virtually all … multinational affiliates. Additionally, an ACE increases intra-group lending and other forms of passive investment but has no …
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This article discusses the effects of an asymmetric tax scheme on incremental and sequential investment strategies. The …
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This article discusses the effects of corporate tax asymmetries under investment irreversibility. We introduce a tax …
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This article compares an ACE system with a CBIT system in an open economy. Using a realoption approach we show that, if a firm can decide when to invest, a tradeoff is found. According to traditional wisdom, a high-income firm investing in an ACE system faces a heavier tax burden at each...
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