The products and services of firms operating in sin industries (alcohol, tobacco, gaming, and firearms) run contrary to social norms and can produce significant negative externalities for society. As such, sin firms are at greater risk of incurring political costs in the form of additional...

This study investigates whether expected economic growth is associated with corporate tax planning. We predict that higher expected economic growth increases the net present value of tax planning opportunities and thus increases investment in tax planning. Consistent with our prediction, we find...

We examine whether reductions in foreign country statutory corporate tax rates affect the competitive environment of U.S. domestic manufacturing firms and how U.S. firms respond. We develop a measure of U.S. domestic firms' exposure to changes in foreign country corporate tax rates and find U.S....

Interest in corporate tax planning has accelerated in recent years as a combination of political, economic, and technological factors have fueled the public's awareness of corporate tax activities. Academic research on corporate tax planning has grown in step with this public interest. This...

I examine differences between effective tax rates (ETRs) and book-tax differences (BTDs) as alternative measures of corporate tax avoidance or tax aggressiveness. When BTDs are scaled by pretax income, the scaled BTD is statistically equivalent to the ETR. When BTDs are scaled by assets the...