Arbeitspapier
Do Dividend Taxes Affect Corporate Investment
We test whether dividend taxes affect corporate investments. We exploit Sweden's 2006 dividend tax cut of 10 percentage points for closely held corporations and five percentage points for widely held corporations. Using rich administrative panel data and triple-difference estimators, we find that this dividend tax cut affects allocation of corporate investment. Cash-constrained firms increase investment after the dividend tax cut relative to cash-rich firms. Reallocation is stronger among closely held firms that experience a larger tax cut. This result is explained by higher nominal equity in cash-constrained firms and by higher dividends in cash-rich firms after the tax cut. The heterogeneous investment responses imply that the dividend tax cut raises efficiency by improving allocation of investment.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4931
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Corporate Finance and Governance: General
Capital Budgeting; Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies; Capacity
Business Taxes and Subsidies including sales and value-added (VAT)
- Thema
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investment
dividend taxation
private firms
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Alstadsæter, Annette
Jacob, Martin
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2014
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Alstadsæter, Annette
- Jacob, Martin
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2014