This study examines whether a firm's life cycle explains its propensity to engage in corporate tax avoidance. Based on the Dickinson (2011) model of firm life cycle stages and a large dataset of U.S. publicly listed firms over the 1987–2013 period, we find that tax avoidance is significantly...

This study examines the association between corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance and financial distress and additionally, the moderating impact of firm life cycle stages on that association. Based on a sample of 651 publicly-listed Australian firm-years data covering the 2007–2013...

This study examines the association between firm life cycle stages and corporate tax avoidance employing the Dickinson (2011) model of firms' life cycle stages. Based on a large dataset of U.S. publicly listed firms over the 1987–2013 period, we find that compared to the shake-out stage of a...

Grantley Tayler Grant Richardson Ahmed Al-Hadi and Ivan Obaydin. Abstract: This study examines the effect of tax haven utilization on the implied cost of equity capital (ICOE) based on a sample of publicly-listed U.S. multinational firms over the 2006–2014 period. Our regression results show...

The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it examines the association between income shifting arrangements consisting of transfer pricing aggressiveness, tax haven use and foreign tax rate differentials, and Financial Interpretation No. 48 (FIN48, now ASC740-10-25) unrecognized tax benefits...