Thomas J. Brennan

Harvard Law School

Professor

1557 Massachusetts Ave

6 Ever

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

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Scholarly Papers (14)

Law and Finance: The Case of Constructive Sales

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 31 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2013
Thomas J. Brennan
Harvard Law School
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law and finance, constructive sales, variable prepaid forward contracts, tax, capital gains tax deferral, Black-Scholes-Merton model, dividend risk

Law and Finance: The Case of Constructive Sales

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 5, pp. 259-276, 2013
Posted: 08 Nov 2013
Thomas J. Brennan
Harvard Law School

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The Origin of Behavior

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 15 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2010
Thomas J. Brennan and Andrew W. Lo
Harvard Law School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Behavioral Finance, Probability Matching, Loss Aversion, Risk Aversion, Risk Preferences, Evolution

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Impossible Frontiers

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2016
Thomas J. Brennan and Andrew W. Lo
Harvard Law School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Shortselling, Long/Short, Portfolio Optimization, Mean-Variance Analysis, CAPM, 130/30

Impossible Frontiers

NBER Working Paper No. w14525
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2022
Thomas J. Brennan and Andrew W. Lo
Harvard Law School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering
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Where the Money Really Went: A New Understanding of the AJCA Tax Holiday

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-35
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 19 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2014
Thomas J. Brennan
Harvard Law School
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international tax, tax policy, repatriation, dividends, shareholder payouts, acquisitions, spending behavior

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What Happens After a Holiday? Long-Term Effects of the Repatriation Provision of the AJCA

Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, Vol. 5, p. 1, 2010
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Oct 2010
Thomas J. Brennan
Harvard Law School
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International Taxation, Repatriation, Overseas Earnings

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Measuring the Tax Subsidy in Private Equity and Hedge Fund Compensation

Drexel College of Law Research Paper No. 2008-W-01
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 15 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2008
Karl Okamoto and Thomas J. Brennan
Drexel University College of Law and Harvard Law School
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private equity, hedge funds, carried interest, carry, performance fee, equity-based compensation, tax, taxation, deferral

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Cash-Flow and Market Response to Repatriation

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Jun 2008
Thomas J. Brennan
Harvard Law School
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AJCA, Jobs Creation Act, internal capital markets, agency problems, executive compensation

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Do Labyrinthine Legal Limits on Leverage Lessen the Likelihood of Losses?: An Analytical Framework

Texas Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 7, 2012
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 30 May 2012 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2012
Andrew W. Lo and Thomas J. Brennan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Harvard Law School
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Leverage, Liquidity, Financial Regulation, Capital Requirements, Macroprudential Policies, Net Capital Rules

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Perils of Partial Mark-to-Market Taxation

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-34
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2013
Thomas J. Brennan
Harvard Law School
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financial products taxation, derivatives taxation, mark-to-market taxation, fundamental tax reform, tax arbitrage

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The Problematic Delta Test for Dividend Equivalents

Tax Notes, Vol. 146, No. 4, 2015
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 05 May 2015
Thomas J. Brennan and Robert L. McDonald
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dividend equivalent taxation, cross-border taxation, delta test

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Realization and Lock-In When Interest Rates are Low

Tax Notes, Vol. 152, No. 8, 2016
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 11 Sep 2016
Thomas J. Brennan and Alvin C. Warren
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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lock-in, tax deferral, realization requirement, interest rates, borrowing costs

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debt-equity distinction, hybrid taxation, convertible bond taxation, tax arbitrage

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Transaction-Specific Tax Reform in Three Steps: The Case of Constructive Ownership

Columbia Journal of Tax Law, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2024
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 08 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2024
Thomas J. Brennan and David M. Schizer
Harvard Law School and Columbia University - Law School
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Taxation, Constructive Ownership, Section 1260, Derivative Securities, Tax Policy, Law & Economics, Tax Reform, Delta, Financial Economics

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Economic Trends and Judicial Outcomes: A Macrotheory of the Court

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 58, p. 1192, 2009, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 10-14
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 30 Jun 2010
Thomas J. Brennan, Lee Epstein and Nancy C. Staudt
Harvard Law School, University of Southern California and Washington University Law School
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Judicial Decisionmaking, Courts, Empirical Studies, Tax Decisions