Research

Working Papers

 “Is Tax Aggressiveness Linked to the Cost of Debt and Equity Capital?( with Petro Lisowsky University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, Jeffrey Pittman, Memorial University and Garth Novack, University of Washington)

 “Investor taxes and Equity Pricing: Using Income Trusts in a Cross-sectional Analysis” (with Ken Klassen University of Waterloo)

 “How do transfer pricing policies affect cross-border mergers and acquisitions?”  (solo authored)

 “The effect of accounting and tax policies on merger and acquisition structure” (with Christy MacDonald, Deloitte)

 “Corporate Tax Compliance: The Role of Internal and External Preparers” (with Petro Lisowsky, University of Illinois and Ken Klassen, University of Waterloo)

 

Work in Progress

 “The role of investor relations in capital markets” (with Sean McGuire, Texas A&M)

 “The cross-country determinants of tax sheltering behavior” (with Petro Lisowsky, University of Illinois and Jing Ai, University of Hawaii)

 “Tax risk assessment: Views from multiple stakeholders of the firm” (with Ardit Nesimi, KPMG)