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...

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...

This paper studies the corporate policy distortions caused by realization-based capital gains taxation at the personal level in a dynamic trade-off theory model. The lock-in effect of embedded capital gains creates severe conflicts of interest between incumbent and new investors. The firms...

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 success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be amodel for the welfare states of Western Europe. The present paper uses a simulation modelto analyse the effects of revenue neutral flat rate tax reforms on equity and efficiency for thecase of Germany...

Recent research on the behavioral effects of income taxes has to a large extent focused onthe elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate, i.e., one minus themarginal tax rate. We offer new evidence on this matter by making use of a large panel ofSwedish tax payers over the...

Die staatlich geförderte und nachgelagert besteuerte Riester-Rente konkurriert als Vehikel derprivaten Altersvorsorge mit alternativen Anlageformen. Aufgrund unterschiedlichersteuerlicher Behandlung dieser Alternativen ist die Optimale zu identifizieren. Dabei ist zuberücksichtigen, dass das...