This paper uses US data to provide evidence regarding the relationship between earnings informativeness and different levels of insider shareholding including insider entrenchment. At medium levels of insider shareholding (convergence of interests e.g., 5 percent and 25 percent), there is a...

This study uses merger and acquisitions (M&A) activities as a proxy for managers' aggressive style and shows that firms with a higher degree of acquisitions (dollar value of acquisitions and number of acquisition announced in a given year) are associated with more tax avoidance. This finding is...