We investigate the joint hypothesis that a) tax expense contains information about core profitability that is incremental to reported earnings and b) that information is reflected in stock prices with a delay. We find that seasonally-differenced quarterly tax expense, our proxy for tax expense...

Financial economists view the tax benefits of leasing as a complex function of the tax deductions and income associated with rentals, depreciation, and interest attributed to lessors and lessees facing different tax rates. We offer two ways to simplify that complexity using the concept of...