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unemployment insurance across and within countries to gauge workers' demand for insurance. Using a firm-level panel from 41 … unemployment insurance: private and public provision of employment insurance are substitutes. …We investigate the determinants of firms' implicit insurance to employees, using a difference-indifference approach: we …
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protection afforded by family firms is greater, and the wage discount larger, the less generous the public unemployment insurance …We investigate the determinants of firms’ implicit employment and wage insurance to employees against industry …-level and idiosyncratic shocks. We rely on differences between family and non-family firms to identify the supply of insurance …
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If unemployment insurance is more generous, workers should demand less implicit insurance from their employers: firm … this hypothesis exploiting cross-country and time-series variation in public unemployment insurance as a shifter of workers … unemployment insurance, while no such substitutability is present for non-family firms …
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Corporate leverage responds differently to employees' rights in bankruptcy depending on whether it is driven by strategic concerns in wage bargaining or by credit constraints. Using novel data on employees' rights in bankruptcy, we estimate their impact on leverage, exploiting time-series,...
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In choosing transparency, firms must trade off the benefits from better access to finance against the cost of a greater tax burden. We study this trade-off in a model with distortionary taxes and endogenous rationing of external finance. The evidence from two different data sets, one formed only...
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This study investigates whether the introduction of a mandatory disclosure requirement (FIN 48), which had the effect of increasing public firms’ visibility to the tax authority, incentivized going-private transactions. Building on analytical work suggesting that disclosures required under FIN...
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When multinationals face lower tax rates abroad than in the US, transfer pricing strategies generate an asymmetry in the tax rates on a project's profits and losses. We show that the tax savings from transfer pricing can be expressed as a long position in a call option. We use a model to show...
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We ask nearly 400 CFOs about the definition and drivers of earnings quality, with a special emphasis on the prevalence and detection of earnings misrepresentation. CFOs believe that the hallmarks of earnings quality are sustainability, absence of one-time items, and backing by actual cash flows....
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In the context of limited local government resources, it is often targeted to secure financial resources for social security expenditures for the aging society and upkeep expenditures against the aging of public infrastructure facilities. This paper examines whether transfers from general...
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Empirical evidence suggests that insurance groups allocate capital to members with better performance or growth … percent of insurers at risk of facing additional regulatory scrutiny due to failing four Insurance Regulatory Information …
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