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Dividends, Capital Gains, and the Corporate Veil : Evidence from Britain, Canada, and the United States

Poterba, James M. - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of increased cash dividend payout, and of quot;forced realizations~ of capital … United States, Great Britain, and Canada suggests that higher dividend tax rates lower consumption. This is consistent with …

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Coming Home to America : Dividend Repatriations by U.S. Multinationals

Hines Jr., James R.; Hubbard, R. Glenn - 2021

This paper analyzes the financial flows from foreign subsidiaries of American multinational corporations to their parent corporations in the U.S. These repatriations are important not only to U.S. investors, who thereby have access to those funds, but also to the U.S. government, which generally...

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Average Marginal Tax Rates U.S. Household Interest and Dividend Income 1954-80

Estrella, Arturo; Fuhrer, Jeffrey C. - 2022

Statistics of Income data for dividend and interest income earned by U.S. households from 1954 to 1980. To illustrate the effects …

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The State of U.S. Corporate Governance : What's Right and What's Wrong?

Holmström, Bengt R. - 2009

The U.S. corporate governance system has recently been heavily criticized, largely as a result of failures at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and some other prominent companies. Those failures and criticisms, in turn, have served as catalysts for legislative change (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) and...

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Private Benefits and Cross-Listings in the United States

Benos, Evangelos - 2014

In this paper, we review the literature on private benefits and cross-listings in the United States. We first discuss the alternative approaches used to measure private benefits. We survey recent evidence documenting cross-country differences in the levels of private benefits obtained by...

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Corporate Governance and the Plight of Minority Shareholders in the United States Before the Great Depression

Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent - 2022

Legal records indicate that conflicts of interest -- that is, situations in which officers and directors were in a position to benefit themselves at the expense of minority shareholders -- were endemic to corporations in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century U.S. Yet investors...

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Contractibility and Asset Ownership : On-Board Computers and Governance in U.S. Trucking

Baker, George P.; Hubbard, Thomas N. - 2021

We investigate how the contractibility of actions affecting the value of an asset affects asset ownership. We examine this by testing how on-board computer (OBC) adoption affects truck ownership. We develop and test the proposition that adoption should lead to less ownership by drivers,...

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Dividends and Bank Capital in the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009

Acharya, Viral V. - 2011

was exacerbated by large scale payments of dividends, in spite of widely anticipated credit losses. Dividend payments …

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Inflation Illusion and Stock Prices

Campbell, John Y. - 2011

We empirically decompose the S&P 500's dividend yield into (1) a rational forecast of long-run real dividend growth, (2 …) the subjectively expected risk premium, and (3) residual mispricing attributed to the market's forecast of dividend growth …

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On the Timing and Pricing of Dividends

van Binsbergen, Jules H. - 2010

We recover prices of dividend strips on the aggregate stock market using data from derivatives markets. The price of a … k-year dividend strip is the present value of the dividend paid in k years. The value of the stock market is the sum of … all dividend strip prices across maturities. We study the properties of strips and find that expected returns, Sharpe …

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