Optimal Selling Time of a Stock under Capital Gains Taxes

Christoph K\"uhn, Budhi Arta Surya and Bj\"orn Ulbricht

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Abstract: We investigate the impact of capital gains taxes on optimal investment decisions in a quite simple model. Namely, we consider a risk neutral investor who owns one risky stock from which she assumes that it has a lower expected return than the riskless bank account and determine the optimal stopping time at which she sells the stock to invest the proceeds in the bank account up to the maturity date. In the case of linear taxes and a positive riskless interest rate, the problem is nontrivial because at the selling time the investor has to realize book profits which triggers tax payments. We derive a boundary that is continuous and increasing in time and decreasing in the volatility of the stock such that the investor sells the stock at the first time its price is smaller or equal to this boundary.

Date: 2014-12
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