Ke Na, Terry Shevlin, Youan Wang, and Zigan Wang ♦ We find that the effect of political connections on tax planning depends on firms’ financial conditions. After increased political connections, financially unconstrained firms increase tax planning and spending on tax services,…
Jiajie Xu ♦ This paper examines how place-based tax incentives impact local private investments and entrepreneurship by studying the U.S. Opportunity Zone program targeting economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Using a difference-in-differences approach across census tracts, I find that while the policy…
Hao Jiang, Christopher A. Parsons, Lin Sun, and Sheridan Titman ♦ Firms employing more H-1B visa holders realize abnormally high stock returns, particularly on earnings announcement dates. Excess returns are higher in talent clusters: doubling the number of H-1B workers…
Olivier Sirello and Miklos Vari ♦ Using the re-issuance policy of the French Treasury, we show that issuances of long-term debt (bonds) increase yields four times as much as issuances of short-term debt (bills). Surprisingly, the modest price impact of…
Alvin Chen ♦ This paper studies buybacks with two informed parties: a manager and an outside speculator. Buybacks introduce two countervailing forces. A competition effect reduces speculator profits when buybacks compete against speculative trades. A dispersion effect increases speculator profits:…
Jinoug Jeung ♦ Exploiting an exogenous increase in public awareness of banks’ lending to the gun industry, this paper documents significant deposit outflows from gun lenders. These outflows are stronger in Democratic-leaning markets and for Republican-leaning lenders. In contrast, anti-gun…
