Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital: Comment

Laurent Bach, Antoine Bozio, Arthur Guillouzouic and Clément Malgouyres

American Economic Review, 2023, vol. 113, issue 7, 2048-52

Abstract: Boissel and Matray (2022) find that investment increased after 2013 in French firms facing higher dividend taxes. We identify an alteration in the code plotting the event study of the effect of this reform on investment. Using identical data and removing this alteration, we find differential pre-trends between treated and control firms. We also establish that the controls referred to as "size growth," used in all the difference-in-difference specifications, effectively are controls for lagged investment, i.e., the main outcome variable. Removing such controls attenuates differential pre-trends but leaves no clear event study evidence of a positive effect of dividend taxation on investment.

JEL-codes: D22 G31 G35 H25 H32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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