Recent theoretical approaches have linked shifts in firms' internal funds and investment spending, holding constant underlying investment opportunities. An important impediment to convincing tests of these models is the lack of firm-level data on the relative costs of internal and external...

Dass Steuern ökonomische Entscheidungen beeinflussen, ist unbestritten. Für die Politik ist es daher elementar, etwas über die Auswirkungen des Steuerrechts auf das Verhalten der Steuerpflichtigen zu wissen. Die Analyse einer vergangenen Steuerreform als natürliches Experiment kann vor...

□ There has been growing public support for a tax hike as corporate investment remains stagnant despite the recent cut in the corporate tax rate. Accordingly, this study aims to closely examine the impact of the corporate tax rate on investment. ○ Managerial decisions, including those on...

This paper develops and tests the hypothesis that accounting rules mitigate the effect of tax policy on firm investment decisions by obscuring the timing of tax payments. I model a firm that maximizes a discounted weighted average of after-tax cash flows and accounting profits. I estimate the...

This paper develops and tests the hypothesis that accounting rules mitigate the impact of tax policy on firm investment decisions by obscuring the timing of tax payments. I model a firm that maximizes a discounted weighted average of after-tax cash flows and accounting profits. The cost of...

Umfassende Analyse der Steuerwirkungen von Dividenden bei unbeschränkt steuerpflichtigen Kapitalgesellschaften -- Ökonomische und rechtliche Würdigung aller relevanten Neuregelungen wie der Steuerpflicht von Streubesitzdividenden und des Korrespondenzprinzips -- Gestaltungsoptionen zur...

This paper examines the corporate investment effect of a time limit on the use of net operating losses (NOLs). We predict that, when countries limit the use of NOLs to a few years instead of allowing indefinite use, managers of loss-making firms have an incentive to increase investments to...