Using a new measure on the concentration of controlling shareholders’ wealth within a business group (i.e., controlling shareholders’ value), this paper investigates whether and how controlling shareholders’ value affects corporate tax planning. Based on a sample of Korean business groups...

Prior studies document that social capital influences managers' propensity to seek private rents. We extend this line of literature by linking regional crime rates, an indicator of extreme breakdown of social capital, to corporate reporting behaviours such as earnings management and tax...