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Traditionally the pre-tax cost of capital is a function of the interest rate and the tax system. However, uncertainty implies that the market’s required return is no single interest rate, but depends on risk. Different tax systems split risk differently between firm and government. Thus the required expected return after corporate taxes depends on the tax system. Expressions for this are derived, based on a CAPM-type model. The weighted average cost of capital is decreasing in the tax rate, even for fully equity financed projects. This effect can be substantial, but is neglected in much of the literature.
Much of the literature on the relationship between taxation and the cost of capital neglects uncertainty. The central relationship can then be written as p = c(r) (King and Fullerton (1984), p. 10), where r is the real market interest rate and p the real cost of capital, defined as a minimum pretax rate of return. King and Fullerton write that the function c “depends upon the details of the tax code,” and that one way of thinking about the condition is to consider r as given and ask how various tax systems affect p in various circumstances.
Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are complex, mission-critical software systems. Today’s DBMSs embody decades of academic and industrial research and intense corporate software development. Database systems were among the earliest widely deployed online server systems and, as such, have pioneered design solutions spanning not only data management, but also applications, operating systems, and net worked services. The early DBMSs are among the most influential soft ware systems in computer science, and the ideas and implementation issues pioneered for DBMSs are widely copied and reinvented.
For a number of reasons, the lessons of database systems architecture are not as broadly known as they should be. First, the applied database systems community is fairly small. Since market forces only support a few competitors at the high end, only a handful of successful DBMS implementations exist. The community of people involved in designing and implementing database systems is tight: many attended the same schools, worked on the same influential research projects, and collaborated on the same commercial products. Second, academic treatment of database systems often ignores architectural issues. Textbook presentations of database systems traditionally focus on algorithmic and theoretical issues — which are natural to teach, study, and test without a holistic discussion of system architecture in full implementations. In sum, much conventional wisdom about how to build database systems is available, but little of it has been written down or communicated broadly.
Economists routinely propose models in which current decisions depend on expectations of future variables. For instance, theories of intertemporal choice with incomplete markets posit that people react to expected income.
When the strong assumptions that lead to certainty equivalence are relaxed, theory also predicts that people respond to higher moments of the distribution of future income (Kimball, 1990). The relevant moments are those of the subjective income distribution conditional on information available at the time the decisions are made.
