We investigate the relationship between government deficits and corporate tax avoidance. We propose three channels through which government deficits can affect corporate tax avoidance, including (i) perceptions of expected tax enforcement, (ii) managers’ sense of civic duty, and (iii)...

We investigate how government deficits affect corporate-tax avoidance. We find that deficits are positively associated with corporate-tax avoidance, consistent with a deterioration in the government’s finances leading to expectations of weaker tax enforcement or future tax increases. To...

This study helps provide clarity to the prior mixed findings on the association between the transparency of the financial information environment and tax avoidance by studying the effect that transparency has on tax avoidance in a cross-country sample through aggregate - and firm-level tests. By...

This paper studies whether illiquidity affects the predictability of fundamental valuation variables. Firm-level, cross-sectional analyses show that returns of illiquid stocks contain less information about their firm's future earnings growth compared to those of more liquid stocks. A natural...