Investment taxation and portfolio performance

被引:25
作者
Bergstresser, Daniel [1 ]
Pontiff, Jeffrey [2 ]
机构
[1] Brandeis Univ, Int Business Sch, Waltham, MA 02453 USA
[2] Boston Coll, Wallace E Carroll Sch Management, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA
关键词
Investments; Capital gains; Taxation; Portfolio choice; MARKET VALUATION; PERSONAL TAXES; RETURNS; DIVIDEND; SHAREHOLDERS; EARNINGS; PRICES;
D O I
10.1016/j.jpubeco.2012.04.005
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We use the federal tax codes from 1926 through 2009 to construct the after-tax returns that individual investors, corporations, and broker-dealers would have generated on a set of benchmark portfolios. Portfolio strategies differ in the pace of capital gains realizations. This creates important heterogeneity in effective investment taxation beyond that implied by dividend yields. Tax burdens reduce the return premium that value portfolios earn over growth portfolios and the premium of small market capitalization portfolios over large market capitalization portfolios. Tax burdens exacerbate the equity premium puzzle, although they help explain mixed empirical results about the dividend preferences of high income and corporate investors. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:245 / 257
页数:13
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