Taxation and Asset Pricing in a Production Economy: Working Paper 2008-10

Marika Santoro and Chao D. Wei

No 20412, Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office

Abstract: This paper studies the asset pricing implications of dividend and corporate income taxes in a stochastic general equilibrium model with production similar to Jermann (1998). In particular, we ask whether those two types of taxes introduce additional tax-related risk factors in the economy, and how the equity premium may be affected. We find that proportional dividend taxes introduce no additional risk factors and, as a result, have no impact on the equity premium. By contrast, corporate income taxes have strong implications for asset pricing. Key economic variables,

Date: 2008-11-25
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