Capital Structure Choice and Company Taxation: A Meta-Study

Taxation and Capital Spending

Benefits of Control, Capital Structure and Company Growth

This paper studies the influence of the private benefits of control on the capital structure and the growth of private companies. It is argued that companies in which existing owners would lose more control if they expanded, have smaller equity increases, are more highly levered and grow more slowly. The dataset covers 8,964 private UK companies with limited liability for up to 5 years. Potenti...

Private Benefits of Control, Capital Structure and Company Growth

This paper studies the influence of the private benefits of control on the capital structure and the growth of private companies. It is argued that companies in which existing owners would lose more control if they expanded, issue less new equity, use more debt and grow more slowly. The dataset covers 6834 private UK companies with limited liability for up to 5 years. Loss of control is measure...

Housing Taxation and Capital Accumulation

This paper studies the impact of the preferential tax treatment of housing capital in a model economy that includes the main housing tax provisions currently in place in the U.S. and a minimum downpayment requirement upon purchasing non-divisible houses. Distortions arise because the tax code makes the return on housing capital larger than that on business capital. The wedge between the two rat...

Optimal Indirect and Capital Taxation

We consider an environment in which agents’ skills are private information and follow arbitrary stochastic processes. We prove that it is typically Pareto optimal for an individual’s marginal benefit of investing in capital to exceed his marginal cost of doing so. This wedge is consistent with a positive tax on capital income. We also prove that it is Pareto optimal for the marginal rate of sub...