Stock Prices and Capital Gains Taxes:

Recent price pressure studies (e.g., Blouin, Raedy and Shackelford, 2002, Guenther, 2000, and Poterba and Weisbenner, 2001) suggest that investee share prices may temporarily fall when repeal becomes effective in 2002 if corporate shareholders unwind their holdings of large blocks of stock and the market is insufficiently liquid. ................
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