This paper provides clear, theoretically sound, guidelines to evaluate the appropriateness of 23 different valuation methods to estimate the present value of tax shields. We first show that the val...

Abstract The value of tax shields depends upon the nature of the stochastic process of the net increase of debt, and does not depend upon the nature of the stochastic process of the free cash flow....

Abstract I correct some expressions of Fernandez (2004) and provide a more general expression for the value of tax shields. This expression is the difference between the present values of two diffe...

ABSTRACT We show that the value of tax shields is the difference between the present values of two different cash flows with their own risk: the present value of taxes for the unlevered company and...