Chapter 1. Interest Burden and Debt Sustainability, by Zhang Xiaojing et al -- Chapter 2. The Sophistication of China’s Financial System, by Fan Lijun & Yin Jianfeng -- Chapter 3 Corporate Leveraging from the Perspective of Return on Assets--Two-Level Deviations of Macro and Micro Leverage...

The present publication is concerned with the process of thin capitalisation in the countries of OECD. Two methods for financing companies are discerned in relation to this phenomenon, i.e. debt and equity financing. The tax-related consequences of the method of equity financing of companies are...

The following paper explores the issue of thin capitalisation in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries. There are two methods used by financing companies that are strongly related to this phenomenon: debt and equity financing. The tax-related consequences...

This paper provides a model-based analysis of special tax rules for corporations that invest in stocks of other corporations. To avoid double taxation the returns from such stock investments (dividends and capital gains) are usually tax-exempted or taxed at a reduced tax rate. This allows for...