We investigate the effects of mandatory private Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR) to European tax authorities on multinational firms' corporate real activities and organizational structures. We exploit the threshold-based application of this 2016 disclosure rule to conduct...

We use required 8-K filings around major borrowings to shed light on firms' choices of whether to comply with SEC disclosure rules. We first develop a simple model in which the firm weighs the benefit of obscuring the disclosure of an adverse event, against the cost of failing to comply with a...

European regulation mandates public country-by-country reporting for banks and is expected to increase reputational costs in case of tax haven activities. We test whether the availability of additional public information on the locations of banks' subsidiaries reduces their tax haven presence....

Demand for disclosures on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues has increased dramatically. Using corporate political spending disclosures as our setting, we conduct a detailed inquiry of 541 political spending-related shareholder proposals from 2004 to 2012 to highlight the role of...

Demand for disclosures on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues has increased dramatically. Using corporate political spending disclosures as our setting, we conduct a detailed inquiry of 541 political spending-related shareholder proposals from 2004 to 2012 to highlight the role of...

We examine whether companies voluntarily disclose additional information about tax loss carryforwards when the recoverability is more uncertain. With this study, we aim to explain part of the huge cross-sectional variation in the tax footnote. To assess disclosure behavior, we hand-collect data...

We examine whether the disclosure of tax-related uncertainty through unrecognized tax benefits (UTBs) resolves or exacerbates investors’ uncertainty about firm value based on evidence from investor trading behavior and information asymmetry around the time of the disclosure. We find that...

This study examines firms' voluntary disclosure of tax loss carryforward (TLCF) information. We measure the content and presentation of TLCF information by a disclosure score based on hand collected data from annual reports. Our identification strategy employs new proprietary data to control for...

This study examines analyst forecast revisions after the disclosure of firms' deferred tax adjustments following the U.S. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (OBRA), which raised the corporate income tax rate from 34% to 35%. This deferred tax adjustment was a one-time item, and should...

In this study, we examine managers' decision to report segment-level profit on a before-tax or after-tax basis. A consequence of defining segment-level profit on an after-tax basis internally is that segment-level tax expense must be disclosed in the financial statements. Consistent with the...