How can tax policy improve financial stability? Recent studies point to large potential stability gains from a reform that eliminates the debt bias in corporate taxation. Such a reform reduces bank leverage. This paper emphasizes a novel, complementary channel: bank risk taking. We model the...

It would not take a long time for a firm to determine factory fs location when the firm fs production activity was almost confined in a country. While, in the globalized economy a firm takes a series of steps to decide factory fs location since spatial range of a firm fs production activity is...

This paper analyzes effects of the corporation tax rates of countries on firms f location selections using the transfer pricing system. Reduction of transportation costs makes firms f production activities expand to across international borders. This expansion incurs harsh price competition...

This paper investigates the impact of separate accounting (SA) versus that of formula apportionment (FA) on investment decisions in high- and low-corporate income tax countries. As the investment decisions of multinational enterprises are commonly taken by managers and not by owners, the focus...

Calls for more frequent application of the second-generation statistical methods such as structural equation modeling (SEM) have emerged in the field of management accounting recently. The aim of this article is to compare these statistical methods to the first-generation methods using the...