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The Firm-level and Aggregate E¤ects of Corporate Payout Policy

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  • Stylianos Asimakopoulos
  • James Malley
  • Apostolis Philippopoulos

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This paper presents a novel study on the significance of corporate payout policy in shaping firms financial decision-making and, in turn, the macroeconomy. To this end, we add to the literature by allowing households and firms to choose share buybacks optimally. We then explore the implications of various shocks commonly facing them, such as dividend income, investment, and tax shocks. The latter include corporate income, capital gains, and dividend income taxes. We find that the model predictions cohere well with the data when applying the non-policy shocks. We also find that tax reform's aggregate and welfare e¤ects are overstated when share buybacks are not optimally chosen as assumed in the relevant literature.

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  • Stylianos Asimakopoulos & James Malley & Apostolis Philippopoulos, 2024. "The Firm-level and Aggregate E¤ects of Corporate Payout Policy," Working Papers 2024_13, Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow.
    • Handle: RePEc:gla:glaewp:2024_13
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    Keywords

    dividends; share repurchases; tax reforms; payout exibility;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • C68 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computable General Equilibrium Models
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
    • G35 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Payout Policy
    • H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
    • H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General

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