Watrin, Christoph; Pott, Christiane; Ullmann, Robert - In: International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and … 8 (2012) 3, pp. 274-302
Using as a natural experiment, the German corporate tax rate decrease in 2001, this paper studies the effect of tax accounting incentives on financial statements in a setting where book-tax conformity is strong. We find that companies that generally balance their overall accounting strategy,...