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Tax Evasion and Entrepreneurial Flexibility

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  • Paolo M. Panteghini

    (Università degli Studi di Brescia)

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The separation between a firm’s decision to evade taxes and its other choices fails to hold if an irreversible investment is introduced. This model applies the well-known Bernanke’s bad news principle, in which auditing is bad news for tax-evading firms. This article thus shows that evasion affects investment, which in turn determines production.

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  • Paolo M. Panteghini, 2000. "Tax Evasion and Entrepreneurial Flexibility," Public Finance Review, , vol. 28(3), pages 199-209, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:pubfin:v:28:y:2000:i:3:p:199-209
    DOI: 10.1177/109114210002800303
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