We examine the capital market reaction to the announcement of the European Union (EU) to introduce a public tax country-by-country reporting (CbCR) regime. By employing an event study methodology, we find a significant cumulative average abnormal return (CAAR) of -0.699%, which translates into a...

In late 2008 Selectica's net operating loss poison pill was triggered by Trilogy/Versata. Litigation ensued in Delaware Court of Chancery over the propriety of the poison pill, which Selectica instituted to protect its $167 million of NOLs from the limitations of Internal Revene Code (I.R.C.)...

This paper augments prior research on how tax-related information disclosures affect a company's market value, by investigating (1) whether voluntary management forecasts of the effective tax rate (ETR guidance) are considered by the addressees of such information and (2) whether tax-related...

This study is the first to investigate the incremental usefulness of book-tax differences (BTDs) to discretionary accruals in detecting earnings management to meet quarterly management earnings forecasts. Upward managed earnings that do not affect taxable income result in larger BTDs. This paper...

This paper analyzes the links between corporate tax avoidance and the growth of high-powered incentives for managers. We develop a simple model that highlights the role of feedback effects between tax sheltering and managerial diversion in determining how high-powered incentives influence tax...

In the context of the statutory tax rate reductions enacted in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, this paper investigates the degree to which capital market participants anticipate and correctly interpret temporary income effects of tax-motivated income shifting. We find evidence consistent with...

This study examines whether managerial forecasts of annual effective tax rates, disclosed in interim financial statements, are useful in predicting future quarterly earnings, are incorporated in financial analysts' forecasts of quarterly earnings, or are impounded in stock prices. The integral...

Note: The following is a description of the paper and is not the actual abstract.Many studies have investigated share price behavior associated with firms' voluntary adoptions of the last-in, first-out inventory method, and a review of the literature provides a rich set of mixed and conflicting...

Shareholders of publicly-traded subsidiaries are potentially susceptible to expropriation (tunneling) by parent companies (Atanasov, Boone, and Haushalter, 2010). Recent study suggests that this could be particularly true among U.S. master limited partnerships (“MLPs”), where there is often...

This paper investigates the extent to which analysts incorporate tax-based earnings information into their earnings forecasts relative to other earnings information. We find that analysts' mis-reaction to tax-based earnings information is distinct from their mis-reaction to other (non-tax)...