Sunday, July 4, 2004 There are three new papers on this week’s list of the Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN, debuting at #’s 3-5: 1. Tax, Corporate Governance, and Norms, by Steven Bank (UCLA) 2. Fiscal Federalism and Tax Progressivity: Should the Federal Income Tax Encourage State and Local Redistribution?, by Kirk Stark

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Sunday, June 27, 2004 There are two new papers on this week’s list of the Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN, debuting at #4 and #5: 1. Corporate Tax Avoidance and High Powered Incentives, by Dhammika Dharmapala (Connecticut – Economics Department) & Mihir Desai (Harvard Business School) 2. The New Dividend Puzzle, by William

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Sunday, June 20, 2004 This week’s Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN remain the same from last week: 1. Corporate Tax Avoidance and High Powered Incentives, by Dhammika Dharmapala (Connecticut – Economics Department) & Mihir Desai (Harvard Business School) 2. The New Dividend Puzzle, by William Bratton (Georgetown) 3. Masking Redistribution (or its Absence),

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Sunday, June 13, 2004 There is a new paper on week’s list of the Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN, debuting at #5: 1. Corporate Tax Avoidance and High Powered Incentives, by Dhammika Dharmapala (Connecticut – Economics Department) & Mihir Desai (Harvard Business School) 2. The New Dividend Puzzle, by William Bratton (Georgetown) 3.

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Sunday, June 6, 2004 This week’s list of the Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN is identical to last week’s: 1. Corporate Tax Avoidance and High Powered Incentives by Dhammika Dharmapala (Connecticut – Economics Department) & Mihir Desai (Harvard Business School) 2. The New Dividend Puzzle by William Bratton (Georgetown) 3. Masking Redistribution (or

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Sunday, May 30, 2004 SSRN has resolved its technical problems, and there are three new entries in our weekly list of Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads: 1. Corporate Tax Avoidance and High Powered Incentives by Dhammika Dharmapala (Connecticut – Economics Department) & Mihir Desai (Harvard Business School) 2. The New Dividend Puzzle by William Bratton

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Sunday, May 23, 2004 Because of technical problems at SSRN, this week’s list of the Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads is the same as last week’s: 1. Corporations, Society and the State: A Defense of the Corporate Tax, by Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) 2. The Dividend Divide in Anglo-American Corporate Taxation, by Steven Bank (UCLA) 3.

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Sunday, May 16, 2004 This week’s list of the Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN is unchanged from last week: 1. Corporations, Society and the State: A Defense of the Corporate Tax, by Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) 2. The Dividend Divide in Anglo-American Corporate Taxation, by Steven Bank (UCLA) 3. Evidence of Differing Market Responses

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Sunday, May 9, 2004 This week’s list of the Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN represents the most dramatic change to date, with 2 new papers cracking the Top 5: 1. Corporations, Society and the State: A Defense of the Corporate Tax, by Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) 2. The Dividend Divide in Anglo-American Corporate Taxation,

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Sunday, May 2, 2004 This week’s list of the Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN is basically unchanged from last week, with #3 and #4 switching positions: 1. Corporations, Society and the State: A Defense of the Corporate Tax, by Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) 2. The Dividend Divide in Anglo-American Corporate Taxation, by Steven Bank

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Sunday, April 25, 2004 This week’s list of the Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads at SSRN is basically unchanged from last week, with #4 and #5 switching positions: 1. Corporations, Society and the State: A Defense of the Corporate Tax, by Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) 2. The Dividend Divide in Anglo-American Corporate Taxation, by Steven Bank

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Sunday, April 18, 2004 The Social Science Research Network compiles a list of the most frequently downloaded tax papers over a rolling two-month period. Here are the Top 5 tax downloads from this week’s Top 10 list: 1. Corporations, Society and the State: A Defense of the Corporate Tax, by Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) 2. The

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