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Firms are facing progressively more stringent tax disclosure requirements. In this paper, we examine whether increased … disclosure of a tax strategy for firms above a certain size threshold. We find that firms that have to publish a separate tax … strategy report significantly increase their voluntary tax disclosure in the annual reports, but we show no widespread effect …
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In this article we investigate the deregulation efforts resulting from the 2015 transposition of the EU’s Transparency Directive into German law and analyze whether a reduction in the minimum content requirements for quarterly reporting increases information asymmetries and decreases firm...
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that supranational competition can have very different consequences on the rent seeking behaviour of firms, depending on …
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, disclosure. Both theory and experimental data further suggest that imposing precision improves overall information transmission … voluntary disclosure game. Consider a sender who aims at inflating a receiver’s estimate of her type and who may disclose any … interval that contains her actual type. Theory predicts that when facing a possibly naive receiver, the sender discloses an …
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We study the extent of fraud in initial coin offerings (ICOs), and whether information disclosure prior to the issuance …
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. We find that the information affects strategic behavior significantly in two distinct ways. In PD, disclosure markedly … someone of lower ability than themselves in the disclosure treatment. Similarly, in BoS with low payoff inequality, disclosure …. Disclosure does not significantly affect coordination rates. Differently from the low payoff inequality game, coordination is …
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, firms standing in competition always - i.e., independent of the consumers’ valuation - offer bonus contracts. Thus …, competition does not eliminate but rather exacerbates inefficiencies arising from contracting with focused agents. Common contract …
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We argue that risk sharing motivates the bank-wide structure of bonus pay. In the presence of financial frictions that make external financing costly, the optimal contract between shareholders and employees involves some degree of risk sharing whereby bonus pay partially absorbs earnings shocks....
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We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated agents to produce a social good. Agents join teams where they allocate effort to either generate individual monetary rewards (selfish effort) or contribute to the production of...
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This paper studies how pay transparency affects organizations that reward employees based on their efforts (i.e., using “subjective performance evaluation”). First, we show that transparency triggers social comparisons that require the organization to pay its employees an “envy premium”....
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