For more than 50 years, researchers around the world have tirelessly been searching for a solution to Blacks famous “dividend-puzzle.” However, despite tremendous efforts in different fields of economics, the influence of taxation on the distribution policy of firms has remained elusive and...

Tax effects on distribution policy have been at the center of debate in the theoretical and empirical literature for over half a century. Theoretically, there are two major schools of thought on the matter. The “traditional view” predicts an influence of taxation on firms' payouts, while the...

Extensive empirical research concerning the impact of taxes on corporate decisions has had trouble identifying seemingly obvious effects. Perhaps the problem is that the seemingly obvious tax predictions are not quite right. We provide an equilibrium model with both corporate and personal taxes....

Absent theoretical guidance, empiricists have been forced to rely upon numerical comparative statics from constant tax rate models in formulating testable implications of tradeoff theory in the context of natural experiments. We fill the theoretical void by solving in closed-form a dynamic...

This paper examines the response of private firms and their shareholders to a dividend tax increase, which affects only a small group of shareholders. Using an exogenous shock in Germany, my results suggest that firms do not adjust their payout policy but corporate minority shareholders, the...

We utilise a change to the treatment of franking credits in the hand of domestic shareholders, namely the introduction of fully refundable franking credits, to provide robust evidence on the causal effect of investor-level taxes on corporate dividend policy. Consistent with investors having a...

This study examines the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) on U.S. corporate investment. We examine U.S. firms and compare them to Canadian firms from 2017 to 2019 in a multivariate firm fixed-effects difference-in-differences analysis. Our results indicate that investment...

The recent dramatic fall in oil prices has led to extensive capital rationing in international oil companies, and subsequent fierce competition between resource extraction countries to attract scarce investment. This situation is not adequately addressed by the large literature on international...

We identify a pecuniary externality arising from corporate tax avoidance. Firms share risk with the government via taxation. The lower the tax rate applied to a firm's earnings, the more risk is borne by its shareholders. As more firms engage in avoidance in the aggregate, the variance of the...