We examine whether changes to corporate governance arising from board reforms affect corporate tax behavior. While the relation between corporate governance and tax behavior has been the subject of intense interest in the literature, prior research has been hampered by a lack of exogenous...

We examine corporate tax behavior in the face of political uncertainty. Because tax policy is an outcome of a political process, increased political uncertainty may be associated with changes in tax behavior. On one hand, uncertainty about whether a firm's current tax strategies will be rendered...

Political science research finds that individuals exhibit partisan bias, which results in unduly favorable economic expectations when their partisanship aligns with that of the US president. We examine whether partisan bias is present in management earnings forecasts, where CEOs have strong...