We investigate how shareholder-and-debtholder conflicts of interests affect the corporate tax avoidance using a unique setting of the affiliated and unaffiliated commercial bankers’ board representation. We find that the appointment of affiliated banker directors, but not unaffiliated banker...

We link genetic diversity in the country of origin of the firms' board members with corporate performance via board members' nationality. We hypothesize that our approach captures deep-rooted differences in cultural, institutional, social, psychological, physiological, and other traits that...