performance levels. The capital structure of Austrian SMEs are biased towards debt-financing and stronger equity, growth and …

We contribute to the empirical literature on the debt bias of corporate income taxation through a micro …-econometric evaluation of the so-called ACE corporate tax reform in Belgium based on firm-level accounting data. We interpret the tax reform … that came into effect in January 2006 as an economic quasi experiment. We identify its causal impact on the leverage ratio …

-specific data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, we find that firms with high tax-induced foreign cash have approximately 3 ….3 percent higher domestic liabilities relative to other multinationals, equivalent to $152.2 million more domestic debt per firm …, or approximately $98.9-$141.9 billion in aggregate. We next examine motives for firms with tax-induced foreign cash to …

-post performance, we find that issuer firms expand their total assets and fixed assets, and also raise their leverage. …

their leverage …

issuer firms expand their total assets and fixed assets, and also raise their leverage …