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...

Online banking has become an important distribution channel for commercial banks. We construct a bank-specific indicator of online channel adoption to study the risk and return of online channels based on a sample of 118 Chinese banks in the period 2002-2016. Our empirical results find that...

In recent years, firms (and lawmakers) have sought to mitigate the dysfunctional effects of incentive-based executive compensation by adopting clawbacks. However, extant clawbacks (whether firm-initiated or as mandated by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act) do not go far enough in that they seem to allow...