Abstract:Prior literature documents that corporate policies, especially those that involve unethical choices, tend to vary geographically. We examine whether firms' geographical locations have explanatory power regarding why some firms are more likely to engage in tax avoidance activities and find consistently significant location fixed effects on multiple measures of firms' tax avoidance behaviour. Additional analyses show that the location fixed effects are more pronounced for firms that have been located in a certai… Show more
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