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- December 2007
- Article
Why Do Firms Hold So Much Cash? A Tax-Based Explanation
By: C. Fritz Foley, Jay Hartzell, Sheridan Titman and Garry Twite
Foley, C. Fritz, Jay Hartzell, Sheridan Titman, and Garry Twite. "Why Do Firms Hold So Much Cash? A Tax-Based Explanation." Journal of Financial Economics 86, no. 3 (December 2007).
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Cagé, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build an endogenous growth model to analyze the relationships between taxation, corruption, and economic growth. Entrepreneurs lie at the center of the model and face disincentive effects from View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 22, 2010
- Column
Give U.S. Companies Certainty on Taxes
By: Robert C. Pozen
Pozen, Robert C. "Give U.S. Companies Certainty on Taxes." FT.com (September 22, 2010).
- August 1988 (Revised September 1991)
- Case
Tax Related Crimes
By: Henry B. Reiling
Reiling, Henry B. "Tax Related Crimes." Harvard Business School Case 289-017, August 1988. (Revised September 1991.)
- March 1993 (Revised November 1993)
- Teaching Note
Taxing Situations: Two Cases on Income Taxes and Financial Reporting TN
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
Teaching Note for (9-191-071).
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- August 2009
- Article
Corporate Tax Avoidance and Firm Value
By: Mihir Desai and D. Dharmapala
Desai, Mihir, and D. Dharmapala. "Corporate Tax Avoidance and Firm Value." Review of Economics and Statistics 91, no. 3 (August 2009): 537–546.
- September 2004
- Article
Sharing The Spoils: Taxing International Human Capital Flows
By: M. A. Desai, Devesh Kapur and John McHale
Desai, M. A., Devesh Kapur, and John McHale. "Sharing The Spoils: Taxing International Human Capital Flows." International Tax and Public Finance 11, no. 5 (September 2004): 663–693.
- 2014
- Working Paper
De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution
By: Benjamin B Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl
The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption relative to leisure rises, in terms of...
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Lockwood, Benjamin B., and Matthew Weinzierl. "De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-063, January 2012. (Updated September 2014. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17784. Published in Journal of Public Economics.)
- March 2005
- Case
Tribune Company: The PHONES Proposal
The Tribune Co. is considering issuing a structured note to monetize its investment in another company, America Online (AOL). Tribune originally invested in AOL in 1991 and currently has approximately 10 million shares left of that investment. However, these shares are...
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Chacko, George C., Andrew Kuhlman, and Eli Strick. "Tribune Company: The PHONES Proposal." Harvard Business School Case 205-087, March 2005.
- June 2004 (Revised March 2005)
- Background Note
Question of LIFO or FIFO, The; Which Is Preferable?
By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Sharon M. Bruns
Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of alternative inventory flow assumptions allowed in the United States. A single exhibit shows that in Year 2, a company using LIFO in Year 1 could report higher net income by switching to FIFO at a cost of higher income...
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Bruns, William J., Jr., and Sharon M. Bruns. "Question of LIFO or FIFO, The; Which Is Preferable?" Harvard Business School Background Note 104-087, June 2004. (Revised March 2005.)
- 1999
- Other Unpublished Work
Taxes and Retirement in the State of Maine
By: Dutch Leonard and John D. Donahue
- November 1991 (Revised February 1993)
- Case
Shall We Soak the Rich?
By: Henry B. Reiling
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Taxation
Reiling, Henry B. "Shall We Soak the Rich?" Harvard Business School Case 292-078, November 1991. (Revised February 1993.)
- May 1989
- Article
Tariffs vs. Quotas with Implicit Collusion
By: J. J. Rotemberg and Garth Saloner
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Taxation
Rotemberg, J. J., and Garth Saloner. "Tariffs vs. Quotas with Implicit Collusion." Canadian Journal of Economics 22 (May 1989): 237–244.
- 2012
- Working Paper
Average Marginal Income Tax Rates in New Zealand, 1907-2009
By: Debasis Bandyopadhyay, Robert J. Barro, Jeremy Couchman, Norman Gemmell, Gordon Y Liao and Fiona McAlister
Estimates of marginal tax rates (MTRs) faced by individual economic agents, and for various aggregates of taxpayers, are important for economists testing behavioural responses to changes in those tax rates. This paper reports estimates of a number of personal marginal...
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Bandyopadhyay, Debasis, Robert J. Barro, Jeremy Couchman, Norman Gemmell, Gordon Y Liao, and Fiona McAlister. "Average Marginal Income Tax Rates in New Zealand, 1907-2009." Working Paper, July 2012.
- June 18, 2010
- Column
Caught in a Bind over Closing Tax Loopholes
By: Robert C. Pozen
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Taxation
- December 10, 2010
- Editorial
Tax U.S. Companies into Spending
By: Mihir Desai
Desai, Mihir. "Tax U.S. Companies into Spending." Washington Post (December 10, 2010), A25.
- February 2000
- Teaching Note
Sherman v. Commissioner TN
By: Henry B. Reiling
Teaching Note for (8-278-138). Reprint not in system.
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Taxation
- September 1985
- Background Note
Income Tax Expense Determination and Analysis
By: David F. Hawkins
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Taxation
Hawkins, David F. "Income Tax Expense Determination and Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 186-077, September 1985.
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
ultimately harm shareholders, and the role boards of directors play in making sure their companies stay within the rules. Ann Cullen: How has the way corporations view taxation changed? Mihir A. Desai: There is growing evidence that the...
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by Ann Cullen
- October 20, 2007
- Article
A Global Tax Credit
By: Justin Muzinich and Eric D. Werker
Muzinich, Justin, and Eric D. Werker. "A Global Tax Credit." Op-ed. New York Times (October 20, 2007).