This article examines charitable contributions in the partnership context and the unintended tax arbitrage that occurs under section 704(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Under the current law pursuant to Treas. Reg. § 1.704-1(d)(2) a partner’s distributive share of losses...

This paper reveals that in addition to fundamental factors, the 52-week high price and recent investor sentiment play an important role in analysts' target price formation. Analysts' forecasts of short-term earnings and long-term earnings growth are shown to be important explanatory variables...