Predicting stock price responses to tax policy changes

TW Downs, H Tehranian - The American Economic Review, 1988 - JSTOR
Events leading to stock price windfalls happen for a variety of reasons. Lately huge gains
and losses have resulted from changes in federal tax policies. Alan Auerbach and Laurence …

Corporate leverage and nondebt tax shields: evidence on crowding‐out

TW Downs - Financial Review, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
A negative relationship between corporate leverage and tax shields has been predicted
because a large nondebt tax shield reduces the expected value of interest tax savings and …

An alternative approach to fundamental analysis: The asset side of the equation

TW Downs - Journal of Portfolio Management, 1991 - search.proquest.com
An alternative approach for establishing a common stock's fundamental value is examined.
A pretax cash flow stream is derived to be consistent with a zero net present value …

Beta, size, risk, and return

TW Downs, RW Ingram - Journal of Financial Research, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
We relate the cross‐section of stock returns to firm size, beta, and total risk. We find that as
extreme monthly security returns are censored from the data, the significance level decreases …

Is there a lottery premium in the stock market?

TW Downs, W Quan - Journal of Portfolio Management, 2001 - search.proquest.com
This research finds that extreme stock returns are associated with low-priced stocks, which
in turn are correlated with a significant decline in average returns. It is inferred from this …

Massive hemoptysis in pregnancy treated with bronchial artery embolization

TW Downs, CR Chao - American journal of perinatology, 1997 - thieme-connect.com
Massive hemoptysis is a life-threatening situation that rarely complicates pregnancy. Presented
is a case of massive hemoptysis during pregnancy, which was successfully diagnosed …

Q and the tax bias theory: The role of depreciation tax shields

TW Downs - Journal of Public Economics, 1992 - Elsevier
A growing body of literature analyzes the variation in Q, the ratio of financial market value to
asset current replacement cost, and makes inferences about attributes such as monopoly …

The analytical derivation and empirical test of a tax-adjusted fundamental value model

TW Downs, KA Shriver - Journal of Accounting Research, 1992 - JSTOR
In implementing the theory of current valuation for fixed assets, accountants encounter a range
of difficult estimation problems. Many of these problems arise because fixed assets yield …

The asset price theory of shareholder revaluations: Tests with the tax reforms of the 1980s

TW Downs, C Demirgures - Financial Review, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
A tax reform providing incentives for fixed investment may increase shareholder wealth
because after‐tax cash flows on planned investment increase. Alternatively, shareholder wealth …

Using the user cost

TW Downs - Journal of Economics and Business, 1986 - Elsevier
Most studies employing the user cost of capital are inconsistent because their user cost
assumes capital has an infinite life and depreciates geometrically, whereas they employ capital …