Product market power provides firms with comparative advantages through more persistent profitability and insulation from competitive threats. These advantages likely provide firms with the ability to engage in greater tax avoidance. We present evidence consistent with this hypothesis. We also...

We examine how the threat of low-cost activism (implemented by small shareholders) affects firms’ tax avoidance. Due to the lack of superior private information, small shareholders rely more on public information and may intervene in response to unfavorable earnings. Thus, as heightened...

Research in economics, finance, and management describes a new type of firm and a new way of doing business — the "new economy business model" — that has been reshaping the U.S. economy since at least the mid 1980's. We extend this research and develop a composite measure of this model,...

This paper investigates how concealment costs of transfer pricing and the probability of detection affect transfer pricing and firm behavior. We find that transfer pricing in intermediate production factors does not affect real activity of a multinational firm if the firm's concealment effort as...

Multinational companies can exploit the tax advantage of debt more aggressively than national companies. Besides utilizing the standard debt tax shield, multinationals can shift debt from affiliates in low-tax countries to affiliates in high-tax countries. We study the capital structure of...