For more than 50 years, researchers around the world have been searching for a solution to Blacks famous 'dividend-puzzle'. However, despite tremendous efforts in different fields of economics, the influence of taxation on the distribution policy of firms has remained elusive and is still...

This paper investigates the impact of the 2001 tax reform in Germany on dividend announcement returns. With this major tax reform, the full imputation system was replaced by the half-income system, which had a significant impact on the relative taxation of dividends and capital gains for most...

Der Beitrag untersucht die Vorteilhaftigkeit der Investition in private Photovoltaik-Aufdachanlagen (PV-Anlagen). Die Förderung durch das Energieeinspeisegesetz (EEG) bei Einspeisung des selbsterzeugten Stroms in das öffentliche Stromnetz sowie die hohen Vergütungssätze für den...

We test the predictions of the theoretical literature initiated by the study of Domar and Musgrave (1944) with a laboratory experiment in which subjects have to decide on the composition of an asset portfolio. Our simple design enables us to distinguish between Real Tax Effects and Perception...

The aim of this study is to analyze how depreciation rules influence the decision behavior of investors. For this purpose, we conduct a laboratory experiment in which participants decide on the composition of an asset portfolio in different choice situations. Using an experimental environment...

Die Einbindung von Steuern in betriebswirtschaftliche Planungsmodelle ist Standard in der modernen Investitionsrechnung. Allerdings stellt sich die Frage der zu berücksichtigen steuerlichen Einzelvorschriften und damit die Frage der optimalen Komplexität von Entscheidungsmodellen. Der Beitrag...

Using a firm-level panel data set I assess whether dynamic models of investment provide an empirically fruitful framework for analyzing tax effects on changes in capital stock. In particular I estimate a one-step error correction model (ECM) complementing the usual estimation of a distributed...