This paper examines the impact of capital gains taxation on firms’ investment and financing decisions. We develop a real options model in which the timing of investment, the decision to default, and the firm’s capital structure are endogenouslyand jointly determined. Our analysis shows that...

We propose an equity finance model with agency problems and investigate the relationship between dividend taxation and inefficient investments. Contrary to both the old and the new view of dividend taxation, a fall in the dividend tax rate is found to improve corporate governance by increasing...

Three years after the seminal work of Black and Scholes [3] on the pricing of European options,Scholes [18] presented a paper in which the impact of taxation on the value of an option is analyzed.We restart this discussion in a simple binomial setting emphasizing the economic principlesof...

There are substantial differences in output per worker across states that persist over time. This studydemonstrates that differences in state taxation of capital income, capital ownership, and consumption canexplain why differences in labor productivity can persist. First, state tax policies...

The influence of capital gains taxes on investment decisions is a central issue of accounting and public finance research. However, the implications of capital gains taxes on investors' willingness to invest in irreversible projects with entry and exit flexibility have not yet been a focal...

This paper investigates the influence of different systems of current income and capital gains taxation on investor's decisions to either carry out an investment in corporate shares or to invest funds alternatively on the capital market.Three basic tax systems are analyzed, a classical corporate...

Wir wollen in diesem Beitrag zeigen, wie notwendig theoretische Erklärungen der betrieblichen Personalpolitik sind und warum sie - trotz aller Notwendigkeit bisher eher selten sind. Weiterhin wollen wir unseren Weg der Suche nach Erklärungen darstellen: die Methode der Modellkonstruktion, der...

Im Unterschied zu leasingspezifischen Abhandlungen unter Betonung praxisorientierter Fragestellungen, die insbesondere auf geschäftspolitische Untersuchungsgegenstände fokussieren, stellen die folgenden Ausführungen einen Beitrag zur Analyse von Leasing-transaktionen aus der Perspektive der...