equilibrium, affiliates might over-invest and the bunching-related investment effects generate a tendency for too high profit … profit. Setting up a model that allows for profitable and loss-making affiliates of multinationals, we show that profit …-tax country induces bunching. Such bunching promotes investment incentives in the low-tax as well as the high-tax country. In …

equilibrium, affiliates might over-invest and the bunching-related investment effects generate a tendency for too high profit … profit. Setting up a model that allows for profitable and loss-making affiliates of multinationals, we show that profit …-tax country induces bunching. Such bunching promotes investment incentives in the low-tax as well as the high-tax country. In …

This paper examines the dynamic relationship among cash flow, R&D investment and profitability. Previous empirical … individual fixed effects. We find that the positive impact of R&D investment on profitability over the long term, which indicates … confirms the importance of R&D investment and financing constraint in improving firm profitability …

dividends and foreign ownership deter earnings management. The author shows that dividend increases and foreign ownership … influence of dividends in increasing earnings quality decreases. Improving transparency through dividend increases and …