The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the joint effects of apportionment and tax incentives on new capital expenditures. Specifically, we examine whether states with lower property factor weights in their apportionment formulae and/or lower corporate tax rates experience...

This study examines how variations in states’ corporate income tax regimes affect new capital investment by business. Using U.S. state-aggregated data from 1983 to 1996, we find in pooled and fixed-effects regressions that new capital expenditures by corporations in the manufacturing sector...

This paper investigates the usage, determinants and earnings effect of special purpose entities based on a large sample of firms from 1994 to 2004. We find that SPE use has grown substantially in recent years and that the number of SPEs is related to economic motivations, financial reporting...