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Politics and War - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
35.5 x 25.5 cm DA gb33 xx Another satire on the creation of legal tender bank notes by the Bank of England. (See 41). William Pitt is pictured spewing paper money out of his mouth, while gold coins are locked up in his stomach. 43 La Bonnet-Rouge: –or– John Bull... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
overlooks the fact that managers don’t always do the right thing for shareholders. If managers are opportunistic, then the extra latitude provided by the dual- reporting system can be costly to investors. Indeed, research shows just that: Corporate View Details
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Clemens Raemy
The entrepreneurial bug bit Clemens Raemy early. As a high-school student in Switzerland, he started an online premium-tobacco business that took advantage of the tax differences between the German and Spanish markets. “I did it for two... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
avoidance at portfolio firms as an additional source of economic value. We document that PE-backed portfolio firms engage in significantly more nonconforming tax planning and have lower marginal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4
Working PapersThe Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Corporate Tax Avoidance Authors:Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego Abstract This study investigates how private equity ownership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
should avoid any semblance of tax evasion or illicit activity, says Baker. He points to the goals of GFI’s Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development (TFFIED), a global coalition of civil... View Details
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
past five decades, accountants have changed from watchdogs to advocates and salespersons. Auditing has become one of a number of services, including consulting and tax advice, in which accountants "sell" creative View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
more sophisticated information streams from bank transaction data, tax payments, and industry comparables. This same data feed can not only promote better credit underwriting, but it can also enable small business owners to be more... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
PublicationsDo Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors? Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:National Tax Journal 63 (December 2010) Abstract Many features of U.S. tax policy towards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
less and less innovative." “Success is a powerful thing It tends to make companies stupid" Scott Cook, Intuit Avoiding innovation stagnation is the reason that Cook believes established companies need a lean start-up model—maybe... View Details
- 27 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should I Pay the Bribe?
around the topic of extortion. "The Shakedown" looks at the conflicts faced by the owner of a software development center in Kiev. Pavlo Zhuk, the U.S.-based co-owner, is notified by his partner that their Kiev office has been visited by Ukraine View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
private companies don't have. As such, the team decided to use sales growth as a proxy for investment opportunity responsiveness, since a rise in sales should trigger a rise in investment by any given firm. Changes in state corporate tax... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
Earnings Management, Corporate Tax Shelters, and Book-Tax Alignment Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:National Tax Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This paper reviews recent evidence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
about fostering inclusion; they range from a rules-based approach to those emphasizing selection, training, and other ways of managing to meet the objective. There should be an effort to avoid the rules-based approach. These were some of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
2015, it actually made theoretical gains from avoiding payment of unemployment benefits and by collecting tax and social security payments from the workers who would otherwise have been unemployed. “To be... View Details
- 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19
server or set of servers to store transactions and also avoiding any single party that can ban certain participants or certain types of transactions. Bitcoin is of interest to economists in part for its potential to disrupt existing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
there are not diffuse shareholders in the multinational-subsidiaries. Surprisingly, many of the same puzzling patterns we see in dividend policies more generally—smoothed payments, a willingness to incur avoidable View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. This new book explains how to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
Gone Too Far When Ethan Bernstein used wearable technology to track workers around their open office, he discovered many were trying to avoid collaboration rather than engage in it. How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit Reshmaan... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne