tax benefit of debt (net and gross of investor taxes) and the debt ratio. A 10% increase in the net (gross) marginal tax … benefit of debt causes a 1.5% (1.6%) increase in the debt ratio, ceteris paribus. The results are robust to various … specifications like using changes in debt or debt to capital ratios. A significantly positive effect of taxes on the debt ratio can …

taxation, a firm's age and its debt to asset ratio. To test these hypotheses empirically, we use a cross-section of 405 …,000 firms from 35 European countries and 126 NACE 3-digit industries. In line with previous research, we find that a firm's debt … ratio increases with the corporate tax rate. Further, we observe that older firms exhibit smaller debt ratios than their …

This paper analyzes the relationship between corporate taxation, firm age and debt. We adapt a standard model of … faced with. Our model suggests that the debt ratio is positively associated with the corporate tax rate, and negatively with … firm age. Further, we predict that the tax-induced advantage of debt is more important for older than for younger firms. To …

part because of difficulties in constructing an effective proxy for the firm's tax benefit of debt. We examine leverage … decisions across taxable and nontaxable real estate firms — firms for which we can measure the relative tax benefit of debt with … little error. The tax hypothesis implies that for firms with similar asset portfolios, taxable firms should have more debt …