Debt Bias in Corporate Taxation and the Costs of Banking Crises in the EU

Download or read book Debt Bias in Corporate Taxation and the Costs of Banking Crises in the EU written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study points to a relation between corporate taxation, bank leverage and costs of financial crises. The authors first estimate the effect of corporate taxation on bank leverage with a series of panel regressions, building on the methodology of Keen and Mooij, but focusing on a sample of 3,000 EU banks using data spanning the period 2001-2011. In a second step, they measure the potential reduction in public finance costs in financial crises that would result from reducing banks' incentives for debt financing compared to equity financing, using an actual bank balance-sheet-based model of costs of systemic crisis (SYMBOL-model) for six EU member states. Finally, they show under which conditions the results hold when varying the sensitivity of leverage to corporate income tax, when asset portfolio risk is adjusted together with bank leverage, and when allowing for increased asset portfolio risk.