As a direct response to the recent trend in corporate expatriations, politicians have questioned the patriotism of firms that reorganize outside the U.S. and introduced numerous legislative proposals designed to prevent corporate expatriations. The implicit assumption made in proposing this...

Gegenstand dieses Beitrages ist die Darstellung der Besteuerungswirkungen insbesondere einer Cash-flow-Steuer und einer zinsbereinigten Einkommensteuer auf auf die Preisbildung bei zeit- und zustandsabhängigen Finanztiteln auf vollständigen Kapitalmärkten, auf denen die in den Marktpreisen...

This study finds that stock return volatility is higher during periods of high tax policy uncertainty (TPU), even after controlling for other sources of general macroeconomic uncertainty. Further, we find that the relation between TPU and stock return volatility is more pronounced where firms...

If global warming is to stay below 2°C, there are four risks of assets stranding. First, substantial fossil fuel reserves will be stranded at the end of the fossil era. Second, this will be true for exploration capital too. Third, unanticipated changes in present or expected future climate...

The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 permitted a one-time 85% dividend received deduction for repatriated foreign earnings. A stated purpose of this legislation was to permit companies to access foreign earnings domestically that would have been too costly previously because of repatriation...

Arguments for eliminating the double taxation of dividends apply only to dividends paid by corporations to individuals. The double (and multiple) taxation of dividends paid by one firm to another intercorporate dividends - was explicitly included in the 1930s to eliminate pyramidal corporate...