Prior research fails to explain why theoretically predicted magnitudes of earnings response coefficients (ERCs) and price-to-earnings ratios (P/E ratios) differ from their empirical counterparts. Therefore, we (re)investigate the associations between earnings innovations, persistence of expected...

er Autor setzt es sich zum Ziel, die Ursachen für die persistent hohe Arbeitslosigkeit und das schwache Wirtschaftswachstum in der BRD im Zeitraum 1991-2007 zu erklären. Dabei formuliert er ein gesamt­wirt­schaft­liches Kreislaufmodell, welches simultan die Inter­dependenzen zwischen der...

In a broad sample of publicly traded firms over the period 1988−2017, we observe that the share of firms reporting pre-tax book losses increased from about 20 to 35%. Of those loss firms, on aver-age 68% have positive cash tax payments (taxpaying loss firms). The amount of taxes paid by these...

I provide a first comprehensive literature survey with an exclusive focus on empirical corporate tax avoidance research. Shackelford and Shevlin [2001] traced the earlier developments of archival, microeconomic-based, empirical income tax research, pointing out a nascent interest for research on...

I develop a unifying conceptual framework of corporate tax planning. The framework accommodates constructs frequently studied in empirical tax accounting research, i.e. tax avoidance, tax aggressiveness, tax sheltering, and tax evasion, by relating them to the seminal notion of effective tax...