Tax-Induced lntertemporal Restrictions on Security Returns
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Bossaerts, Peter
- Dammon, Robert M.
Abstract
This paper derives testable restrictions on equilibrium prices when capital gains and losses are taxed only when realized. We use the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) procedure to estimate and test the restrictions. The empirical results show evidence of capital gains tax effects on the pricing of common stock. The restrictions are not rejected by the data and estimates of the coefficient of risk aversion and the dividend tax rate are precise and economically plausible. Estimates of the capital gains tax rate, however, are often imprecise and economically implausible. Further results indicate that this can be attributed to the fact that our model does not accommodate differential long and short-term tax rates. The data appear to favor the martingale hypothesis for after-tax asset returns over a before-tax consumption-based asset pricing model.
Additional Information
We are grateful for valuable discussions with Rick Greeu, Steve Heston, Ravi Jagannathan, Bob Miller, Ken Singleton, Chester Spatt, Stan Zin, and the seminar participants at the California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, the Stockholm School of Economics, the University of British Columbia, UC-Irvine, UC-Los Angeles, UC-San Diego, the University of Southern California, the University of Utah and the 1990 Western Finance Association Meetings. We gratefully acknowledge the research assistance of Bernt Oedegaard and the financial support provided by a Carnegie Mellon University faculty development grant. The first author also acknowledges the hospitality of the Sloan School of Management of MIT, where part of this paper was written. Previous versions of this paper were circulated under the title "A Consumption Based Asset Pricing Model with Personal Taxes: Theory and Empirical Tests". Published as Bossaerts, Peter, and Robert M. Dammon. "Tax‐Induced Intertemporal Restrictions on Security Returns." The Journal Of Finance 49, no. 4 (1994): 1347-1371.Attached Files
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- A Consumption Based Asset Pricing Model with Personal Taxes: Theory and Empirical Tests
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2017-08-31Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- Social Science Working Papers
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- Social Science Working Paper
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- 763