Three essays on taxation

This dissertation contains three essays. The first essay examines the response of equity values to the announcement of a decrease in the capital gains tax rate. The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 reduced the long-term capital gains tax rate. News of this rate reduction reached investors in late April t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cook, Kirsten Abram
Other Authors: Kinney, Michael R.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1396
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1396