Abstract This study examines the adaptive market hypothesis in the prewar and wartime Japanese stock market using a new market capitalization‐weighted price index. First, we find that the degree of market efficiency varies over time and with major historical events. This implies that the hypothesis is supported in this market.
Kenichi Hirayama, Akihiko Noda
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Dividend taxation and Corporate investment: A comparative study between the classical system and imputation system of dividend taxation in the United States and Australia. [PDF]
In recent times a number of countries initiated some important tax reforms to eliminate the distortions of double taxation. In this context, Australia adopted a dividend imputation system in 1987, while the US employed the 1986 Tax Reform Act (TRA).
Bhavish Jugurnath +2 more
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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Tax Reform and the Environment in Developing Economies: Is a Double Dividend Possible [PDF]
We reconsider some analytical arguments on the double dividend, focusing on the small open developing economy case. Compared with the large, mature industrial economies usually considered, such economies differ in several respects, including the ...
Coxhead, Ian
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Green tax reform and two-component unemployment: Double dividend or double loss? [PDF]
The double-dividend argument (as used in political debates) addresses worries that a green tax may lead to higher unemployment when wages are inflexible.
Albert, Max, Meckl, Jürgen
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The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s
This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
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Innovative Financing at a Global Level [PDF]
The European Commission services published a staff working document assessing the main sources of innovative financing under discussion. The analysis shows that for some of the instruments a "double dividend" of both raising revenues and improving market
European Commission
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Seeing like a citizen: Experimental evidence on how empowerment affects engagement with the state
Abstract Building a strong and effective state requires revenue. Yet, in many low‐income countries, citizens do not make formal payments to the state or forego engaging with the state altogether due to vulnerability to opportunistic demands by state agents. We study two randomized interventions in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, designed to
Soeren J. Henn +4 more
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A Reconsideration of gDouble Dividendsh Hypothesis in Taxation on Externalities [PDF]
Bovenberg and Mooij (1994) and others pointed out that the optimal taxation on goods with external diseconomy both collects revenue and also corrects the external diseconomy by the goods, and thus it is said that the tax has gdouble dividendsh.
SUMINO, Koh, YAMADA, Masatoshi
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Do tax havens affect the usage of share buybacks schemes?
Abstract This study examines whether the use of tax haven subsidiaries by U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) is associated with more intense usage of share buybacks. I find that MNCs' more intensive tax haven subsidiary usage is positively associated with a higher buyback ratio, a higher level of free cash flow and a higher level of return on ...
Alessandro Chiari
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