This paper disproves the implication by Modigliani and Miller (1958) that taxation with interest deductibility is an advantage. This paper shows that government and bank are two robbers. Firms and consumers should avoid both of them. This paper advocates that firms should borrow less with there...

Systemically important banks are subject to at least two departures from the neutrality of debt versus equity financing: the tax deductibility of interest payments and implicit funding subsidies. This paper fills a gap in the literature by comparing their mechanism and interaction within a...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the interest tax deductibility effect on cost of capital under earning stripping rules recalling Modigliani-Miller's theorem (1958, 1963). In fact, Italy's corporate taxation, as other countries, does not allow to fully deduct interest expenses of debt...