Billings, B. Anthony; Lee, Cheol; Lee, Jaegul - In: Advances in taxation, (pp. 51-72). 2018
The chapter examines whether the lowering of dividend taxes as part of the US Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (JGTRRA) resulted in an increase in dividend payouts at the expense of research and development (R&D) spending. Using 1,206 US firm-years data, we find that R&D...