The power of financial transparency: An event study of country-by-country reporting standards

摘要

We show that recent European legislation requiring oil, gas and mining companies to disclose their tax payments on a country-by-country basis was associated with significant decreases in firm value. This suggests that tax evasion creates considerable rents for firms in extractive industries and that disclosure rules have the potential to reduce these rents. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.