This paper counters the view that the possibility of share repurchases invalidates the predictions of the ’new’ (or ’trapped equity’) view of corporate taxation. It is shown that the ’new’ view’s basic cost of capital expression which distinguishes it from the ’old’ view...

A PAYGO system may serve as insurance against not having children and as an enforcement device for ungrateful children who are unwilling to pay their parents a pension. In fact, the latter was Bismarck’s historic motive for introducing this system. It is true that the PAYGO system reduces the...