This study compares incentive effects of various tax depreciation methods currently adopted in European transition economies. In these countries straight-line, geometric-degressive and accelerated depreciation measures are quite popular in combination with different corporate tax rates. Their...

In Taxation of Intellectual Capital, Professor Lily Kahng argues that U.S. tax law is fundamentally flawed because it allows businesses to “expense” investments in self-created intangibles. The article draws on research in related areas (knowledge management, financial accounting, and...

As the “new” economy which is supposedly mainly fueled by knowledge and ideas relentlessly marches on with globalization, intellectual capitals (IC), such as human capitals, structural and relationship capitals, are getting more and more attention, as they are expanding the horizon of the...

The effects of corporate taxation on firm behavior have been extensively discussed in the neoclassical model of firm behavior which abstracts from agency problems. As emphasized by the corporate governance literature, corporate investment behavior is however crucially influenced by diverging...