Tax Avoidance, Corporate Transparency, and Firm Value

Tax Avoidance , Corporate Transparency , and Firm Value

Externalities of Corporate Tax Avoidance

We show that when a meaningful proportion of firms in an economy engage in tax avoidance strategies, the covariance between a firm’s cash flow and the market cash flows increases, thereby increasing a firm’s cost of capital. This negative externality is imposed on all firms in the economy, not just tax-avoiding firms. The negative externality results regardless of the level of uncertainty assoc...

The Ranking of Effective Factors on Corporate Tax Avoidance

The Hierarchy of Effective Factors on Corporate Tax Avoidance Because of the information asymmetry within taxpayers and governments, commonly, the taxpayers try avoid the payment of tax. The problem can be explained by Agency theory. On the other hand, governmants try to maximize receiving tax by recognizing risky taxpayers and researchers try to recognize effective factors on tax avoidance. Th...

the relationship between tax avoidance and firm value with an emphasis on agency cost and firm disclosure quality

the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between tax avoidance and firm value with an emphasis on agency cost and disclosure quality of firms listed in tehran stock exchange. the sample of this study consists of 68 firms for the period 2004 to 2015.this study is applied in purpose and correlation- descriptive in method. in this study to test the hypotheses, multivariate linear r...

Stakeholder Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Firm Value∗

We consider the advantages and disadvantages of stakeholder-oriented firms that are concerned with employees and suppliers as well as shareholders compared to shareholderoriented firms. Societies with stakeholder-oriented firms have higher prices, lower output, and can have greater firm value than shareholder-oriented societies. In some circumstances, firms may voluntarily choose to be stakehol...