DHALIWAL, DAN; KRULL, LINDA; LI, OLIVER ZHEN; MOSER, WILLIAM - In: Journal of Accounting Research 43 (2005) 5, pp. 675-708
We estimate firm-level implied cost of equity capital based on recent advances in accounting and finance research and examine the effect of dividend taxes on the cost of equity capital. We investigate whether dividend taxes affect firms' cost of capital by testing the relation between the...