Current Research Topics

Interaction of tax policy and financial reporting, tax and accounting issues arising in international business, tax compliance and enforcement

Selected Publications

With R. Sansing, “The Effect of ‘Invisible’ Tax Preferences on Investment and Tax Preference Measures,” Journal of Accounting and Economics, 46, 2008; “Do Firms Incur Costs to Avoid Reducing Pre-Tax Earnings? Evidence from the Accounting for Low-Income Housing Tax Credits,” The Accounting Review, 85(2), 2010; with L. Mills and R. Sansing, “FIN 48 and Tax Compliance,” The Accounting Review, 85(5), 2010; with J. Slemrod, “Understanding Multidimensional Tax Systems,” International Tax and Public Finance, forthcoming

Working Papers

With J. Blouin and L. Krull, “Is U.S. Multinational Intra-Firm Dividend Policy Influenced by Reporting Incentives?”; with P. Lisowsky and A. Schmidt, “Do Publicly Disclosed Tax Reserves Tell Us About Privately Disclosed Tax Shelter Activity?”; with J. Blouin and J. Seidman, “Coordination of Transfer Prices on Intra-Firm Trade”; with P. Stocken, “Location of Decision-Rights Within Multinational Firms”; “Corporate ‘Non-Income’ Tax Avoidance”

Awards

Calloway School Fellowship, 1998–99; American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Candidate High Distinction Report, 1999; Initiative on Global Markets research grant, Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, 2009; International Tax Policy Forum research grant, 2009 and 2010; Fama-Miller Center research grant, Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, 2011

Professional Activities

Academic positions: Adjunct Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001–03; Tuck School of Business, 2006–present; McKinsey & Company, 2009–present (early tenure learning)

Nonacademic positions: Tax Senior, Ernst & Young LLP, 1999–2001; Tax Manager, Wachovia Corporation, 2001–02