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Using firm-level administrative tax data on the 43% of business liabilities in the United States tied to privately held firms, we document dramatic reductions in leverage since the Great Recession. Leverage for the average private firm fell fifteen percent between 2004 and 2018. In contrast,...
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Using a new database that contains accounting data for a large sample of U.S. private firms, we provide an investigation of financial reporting quality (FRQ) of U.S. private versus public firms. We find that in general public firms have higher accrual quality and are more conservative. The...
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Using a new database that contains accounting data for a large sample of U.S. private firms, we provide an investigation of financial reporting quality (FRQ) of U.S. private versus public firms. We find that in general public firms have higher accrual quality and are more conservative. The...
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Characteristics of skilled immigrant workers – age, educational attainment, and occupational skills – changed after the U.S. immigration policy shock of 2004 when the maximum number of new skilled immigrant visas was reduced to 90,000. We observe a higher (lower) probability of hiring...
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We develop a method for identifying public firms in tax records in order to compare the investments of public and private firms using a representative sample of all US corporations. Despite private firms being significantly smaller than public firms on average, in aggregate, they account for an...
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We construct a novel data set to show that, between 2003-2020, up to one-fifth of America’s largest firms had a non-financial blockholder or insider as their largest shareholder. Blockholders and insiders tend to be less diversified than institutional investors. Measures of “universal” and...
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We construct a novel data set to show that, between 2003-2020, up to one-fifth of America's largest firms had a non-financial blockholder or insider as their largest shareholder. Blockholders and insiders tend to be less diversified than institutional investors. Measures of "universal" and...
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Corporate venture capital (CVC) activity is strongly correlated with past activity and is increasingly more permanent among U.S. public firms: the average number of years a firm invests in ventures relative to the number of years passed since its first investment neared 0.25 in 2019 from 0.05 in...
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In this study, we examine whether state-level corruption and corporate tax avoidance in the U.S. are related. Using a … sample of 36,078 U.S. firm-year observations from 1998 to 2014, we find that corruption is significantly positively related …-level, we observe that corruption is significantly positively related to corporate tax avoidance in states that have low levels …
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In family firms, the succession of controlling equity stake to next generation is an issue of paramount importance. This, however, can be a major challenge in the presence of heavy inheritance or gift tax burden (high tax rate and absence of tax-saving vehicles, such as trusts or foundations)...
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