@techreport{NBERw1713, title = "A Problem of Financial Market Equilibrium When the Timing of Tax Payments is Indeterminate", author = "David F. Bradford", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "1713", year = "1987", month = "March", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w1713", abstract = {If firms are indifferent about the timing of dividends, the government's cash flow from taxes on dividends is indeterminate. In an earlier paper, I showed in the context of a world without uncertainty that variations in tax receipts from this source would have no real effects. The extension of the analysis to a world of risk turns out to involve new elements that may be of some general interest. In particular, the conditions for neutrality seem less likely to be fulfilled in a practical context.}, }