Purpose: This paper aims to investigate whether the level of social capital of the region in which a firm is headquartered affects its tax avoidance activities. Social capital can be defined as the mutual trust in society and literature shows that firms headquartered in high social capital...

In this paper, we develop and test the hypothesis that tax repatriation costs increase the uncertainty embedded in cash holdings. The intuition behind our empirical prediction relies on the notion that tax repatriation costs are a strong indication that part of the cash is not available to...

Using branch-level data on public and private U.S. banking institutions we investigate the importance of branch religiosity in shaping bank risk-taking behavior. Our results show robust evidence that branch religiosity is negatively related to bank risk-taking. This effect persists after...

This paper investigates whether the fair value accounting for available-for-sale (AfS) securities and the capital regulation permit to shift risk from shareholders to creditors. Using a sample of 5,510 firm-year observations generated from 754 unique U.S. banks from 1998 to 2013, we find that...

We exploit IFRS mandatory adoption as a source of variation in the demand for conditional conservatism to examine the role of unaffiliated bankers on the level of conditional conservatism. We show that firms with unaffiliated bankers on boards of directors experience a significant increase in...

We exploit an informational shock to the firm information environment to examine the relationship between unaffiliated bankers on corporate boards and conditional conservatism. We find that after the information shock, firms with unaffiliated bankers on board experience a statistically and...