This study investigates whether changes in personal tax rates on dividends and capital gains affect firms' incremental financing decisions. The evidence in this study suggests that following the 1997 and 2003 Tax Acts, which decreased tax rates on equity income, firms are less likely to issue...

The purpose of this study is to investigate if and how shareholder level taxes affect earnings response coefficients (ERCs). Our tests indicate that when the tax rate on dividends increases, ERCs decrease for firms with high dividend yield and whose marginal investor is likely to be an...

This paper investigates the impact of the seller's tax liability on the price paid in hospital acquisitions. Lock-in theory predicts that for a given asset, asset holders with larger tax liabilities demand a higher price to compensate for income tax liabilities generated on the sale. We apply...

We analyze the effect of tax-based transaction structure on the acquisition price of corporate subsidiaries. For a sample of 200 subsidiary stock acquisitions, the evidence weakly supports the conclusion that acquisition premiums are higher in transactions accompanied by an I.R.C. section...

We analyzethe effect of tax-based transaction structure on the acquisition price of corporate subsidiaries. For a sample of 200 subsidiary stock acquisitions, the evidence weakly supports the conclusion that acquisition premiums are higher in transactions accompanied by an I.R.C. Statute...

The theory of tax clienteles for dividend policies predicts that tax-exempt/tax-deferred and corporate investors will increase their ownership of the equity of firms that initiate a cash dividend as these investors purchase shares of stock that are being sold by individual investors for whom...

This study investigates the manipulation of accounting earnings in the period preceding the announcement and completion of stock for stock mergers by a sample of acquiring firms. Results indicate that in the quarters prior to the merger, acquiring firms manage earnings upward. This result is...

This paper analyzes tax and non-tax determinants of corporate acquisition structure for 340 acquisitions involving public U.S. acquirers and targets during 1985-1988. The results indicate that the acquiring firm's tax and non-tax characteristics significantly affect transaction structure, but...