Corporate tax avoidance has regularly been accused of aggravating income inequalities. Yet, systematic evidence on this matter is still lacking. To fill this gap, the present paper explores the effect of profit shifting on employee pay among S&P 1500 companies. The study shows that its effect...

Corporate tax avoidance has regularly been accused of aggravating income inequalities. Yet, systematic evidence on this matter is still lacking. To fill this gap, the present paper explores the effect of profit shifting on employee pay among S&P 1500 companies. The study shows that its effect...

Does tax knowledge spread across firms? This paper provides systematic evidence along these lines using data on US-listed firms' presence in tax havens and an event study. An enterprise is more likely to own a subsidiary in a specific tax haven once another enterprise operating in the same...

The role of competition in corporate tax avoidance is theoretically unclear in the existing literature. This paper empirically clarifies this role, with a focus on import competition. I exploit financial statements to measure tax avoidance of US-listed firms and the conferral of Permanent Normal...

What makes firms invest in foreign countries? This paper shows that beyond country- and firm-specific characteristics, executive experience is crucial to understand multinational enterprises' location choices. Using data on US-listed firms and an event study, I find that hiring an executive...

Corporate tax avoidance has become a salient policy issue and has regularly been accused of aggravating income inequalities. However, systematic evidence on this topic remains lacking. I empirically explore in this paper the effect of profit shifting activities of multinational enterprises on...

The role of competition in corporate tax avoidance is theoretically unclear in the literature. The present paper clarifies this role with an empirical study and a focus on import competition. The analysis shows that competition fosters corporate tax avoidance. Consistent with profit shifting...