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Corporate Taxes, Inflation, the Rate of Interest, and the Return to Equity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Extract

The recent world-wide increase in consumer prices has created an intense interest in inflation on the part of both the academic and the financial communities. For example, in his American Financial Association presidential address, Professor Lintner [4, p. 259] states “few matters are of more serious concern to students of finance and to members of the financial community than the impacts of inflation on our financial institutions and markets and its implication for investment policy.”

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Research Article
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1978

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