Although agency theory suggests that firms should index executive compensation to remove market-wide effects (i.e., RPE), there is little evidence to support this theory. Oyer (2004, "Journal of Finance" 59, 1619-1649) posits that an absence of RPE is optimal if the CEO's reservation wages from...

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>We empirically investigate one form of illegal investor-level tax evasion and its effect on foreign portfolio investment. In particular, we examine a form of round-tripping tax evasion in which U.S. individuals hide funds in entities located in offshore tax havens and then...</p>