Studies suggest that when a language requires grammatical marking of future events, speakers prefer immediate payoffs and engage in less future-oriented behavior. If future costs of tax avoidance are non-trivial, we posit that strong future time reference (FTR) in languages would lower...

Prior studies show that resource adjustment costs and managerial discretion are important in the cost management. Recent studies suggest that behavioral biases can influence managerial discretion. We examine whether irrational pessimism induced by terrorism affects the sensitivity of costs to...