scholarly journals Withholding-tax non-compliance: the case of cum-ex stock-market transactions

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 1425-1452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thiess Buettner ◽  
Carolin Holzmann ◽  
Felix Kreidl ◽  
Hendrik Scholz
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Publicly Traded ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
Dividend Taxation ◽  
German Stock ◽  
Tax Fraud ◽  
Withholding Tax ◽  
Tax Refunds ◽  
German Stock Market ◽  
Expected Increase

Abstract This paper explores withholding-tax non-compliance in the context of dividend taxation. It focuses on a specific type of stock-market transactions around ex-dividend dates, so-called “cum-ex” trades, which caused considerable revenue losses due to illegitimate tax refunds in Germany and other countries. We use a stylized model of the stock-market equilibrium to analyze the incentives of traders on the German stock market and find that cum-ex trades are only profitable for both buyer and seller in the presence of collusive tax fraud. Our empirical analysis of market data for publicly traded German stocks from 2009 to 2015 confirms that transaction numbers of stocks suitable for cum-ex trades show the expected increase shortly before ex-dividend dates in the period before the tax refunding was reformed. In line with the collusion hypothesis, effects on stock-market prices are not found.

scholarly journals Can the FSCORE add value to anomaly-based portfolios? A reality check in the German stock market

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eero J. Pätäri ◽  
Timo H. Leivo ◽  
Sheraz Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Trading Strategies ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Research Setting ◽  
Holding Period ◽  
Reality Check ◽  
German Stock ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
German Stock Market

AbstractThis paper examines the added value of using financial statement information, particularly that of Piotroski’s (J Account Res 38:1, 2000. https://doi.org/10.2307/2672906) FSCORE, for equity portfolio selection in the German stock market in a realistic research setting in which the critique against the implementability of FSCORE-based trading strategies is taken into account. We show that the performance of annually rebalanced long-only portfolios formed on any of the examined 12 accounting-based primary criteria improves by including the FSCORE as a supplementary criterion. Our study is the first to show that although the FSCORE boost is strongest for the 1-year holding period length, it also holds, on average, for the 3-year holding period. The use of a 3-year updating frequency is particularly beneficial for the low-accrual portfolio that—when supplemented with the high-FSCORE threshold—generates the best overall performance among all 75 portfolios examined. Moreover, we show that a high FSCORE is also an efficient stand-alone criterion for long-only portfolio formation.

scholarly journals The Impact of Investor Sentiment on the German Stock Market

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Finter ◽  
Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi ◽  
Stefan Ruenzi
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Investor Sentiment ◽  
German Stock ◽  
The Impact ◽  
German Stock Market
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