We examine whether incumbent firms react to significant IPOs in the same industry by adjusting their tax policy to align with the tax outcomes of the IPO firm. We find that incumbent firms adjust their effective tax rate in response to the difference between it and the effective tax rate of the...

This study examines whether board-level codetermination (inclusion of employee representatives on the board) reduces aggressive financial reporting, i.e. tax aggressiveness and earnings management. Consistent with prior research, we expect employees to prefer lower tax aggressiveness and less...

Our study examines the effect of corporate tax outcomes on forced CEO turnover. While prior research argues that firms often do not engage in tax avoidance due to reputational concerns, the empirical evidence suggesting the existence of reputational costs is scarce. In a broad sample of firms,...

This paper examines whether financial analysts' presence compels managers to recognize a goodwill impairment. Analysts could impact managers' impairment decisions in at least two ways: (1) by improving the information environment through an independent analysis of firm performance (i.e., an...

Using a sample of firms experiencing exogenous CEO departures, we investigate whether firms with overconfident CEOs avoid more tax. We find robust evidence of a positive relation between proxies for corporate tax avoidance and CEO overconfidence. Because our empirical tests use a panel of...

We test whether firms that exclude the effects of amortization from their non-GAAP earnings allocate more of an acquisition’s purchase price to definite-lived intangible assets (DLIA). This strategy can yield two potential benefits: it can (1) increase non-GAAP earnings by shifting...

We examine the impact of unionization on firms' tax aggressiveness. We find a negative association between firms' tax aggressiveness and union power and a decrease in tax aggressiveness after labor union election wins. This relation is consistent with labor unions influencing managers' in one,...

Using data on institutional investors' portfolio composition before and after the capital gains tax rate cut in the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, we find evidence that, relative to less tax sensitive institutional investors, tax sensitive institutional investors are more willing to sell...

This study uses a unique dataset that separates tax non-audit services (NAS) into tax planning and compliance NAS to examine how audit quality is affected by these two types of tax NAS. Our main results, which account for decisions to purchase and disclose the breakdown of tax NAS, show that...