This study examines strategic alliances as channels for tax knowledge diffusion between firms. Although strategic alliances are primarily expected to foster their main business purposes, we focus on whether tax knowledge potentially diffuses as a second order effect of peer-to-peer cooperation....

We investigate how managers smooth volatility in balance sheets, using the pension accounting change IAS 19R as a shock to balance sheet volatility. This shock increases pension plans' funding transparency, which is the source of volatility, without targeting actual plan funding. We find that...

Strategien konglomerater Diversifikation werden aus volks- und betriebswirtschaftlicher Perspektive gleichermaßen uneinheitlich beurteilt. Informationsökonomisch fundierte Kriterien zur Bewertung konglomerater Diversifikation finden in der Wettbewerbspolitik nur am Rande Berücksichtigung....

This is the first study that assesses the economic effects of direct democratic institutions on a cross country basis. Its results are based on up to six new measures produced to reflect the legislative basis for using direct democratic institutions as well as their factual use. In addition, a...