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two different remuneration functions allowing the participants to act as owners or managers of a company. …
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The split share structure reform in China aligned the incentive of controlling shareholders with that of minority shareholders by granting trading rights to previously non-tradable shares. We find that the reform increases firms' tax avoidance activities that are value-enhancing. However, the...
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In many organizational contexts, managers might have self-serving incentives whereby giving high evaluations to … employees comes at the expense of their own payoff. In this study, I examine the impact of managers’ self-serving incentives on … the collection and use of information for the purpose of subjective performance evaluation. I find that managers with self …
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We examine how clawback provisions and board monitoring affect managers' use of discretion to achieve earnings targets … amount of earnings management activity. This null result arises because, while clawbacks do curb the extent to which managers … managers' use of discretion when making operational decisions (real earnings management). In contrast, strong board monitoring …
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.98%-32.43%. Motivated by managerial risk aversion, managers are in favor of lower customer concentration, resulting in a sub-optimal level …
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We exploit an exogenous shock to analyst coverage as a result of brokerage house mergers and closures to examine whether financial analysts influence the tax-planning activities of the firms they cover. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that, on average, firms affected by broker...
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two different remuneration functions allowing the participants to act as owners or managers of a company. …
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We take advantage of recent indirect tax reforms in India to study the incentives to engage in indirect tax avoidance and shareholder valuation of such avoidance. Our results suggest that size of the product portfolio, geographical proximity of manufacturing facilities to headquarters, ownership...
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We utilise a change to the treatment of franking credits in the hand of domestic shareholders, namely the introduction of fully refundable franking credits, to provide robust evidence on the causal effect of investor-level taxes on corporate dividend policy. Consistent with investors having a...
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We employ states' enactment of constituency statutes as plausibly exogenous shocks to the marginal cost of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and examine the relation between CSR and corporate tax avoidance. We find almost no evidence of an association between the enactment of constituency...
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