Luo, Jingbo; Guo, Chun - In: China journal of accounting research : CJAR 16 (2023) 3, pp. 1-24
This study investigates the effect of flexible tax enforcement on firms’ excess goodwill using unique manually … goodwill; A-rated firms reduce excess goodwill by 0.005 vis-a-vis non-A-rated firms, which accounts for 100% of the mean value … of excess goodwill. This finding holds after multiple robustness tests and an endogeneity analysis. Moreover, this …