Dane M. Christensen

TL;DR: The authors investigated whether managers' personal political orientation helps explain tax avoidance at the firms they manage and found that firms with top executives who lean toward the Republican Party actually engage in less tax avoidance than firms whose executives lean towards the Democratic Party.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether a firm's ESG disclosure helps explain some of the disagreement among rating agencies regarding what rating to give to individual firms, and they found that greater disclosure actually leads to greater ESG rating disagreement.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether corporate accountability reporting helps protect firm value and find that firms that report on their corporate accountability activities are less likely to engage in high-profile misconduct, consistent with the reporting process helping firms to manage their operations better.

TL;DR: This study examined a potential personal consequence for CEOs related to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and explored the role prior investments in CSR play when a board evaluates the firm's financial performance and considers whether or not to fire the CEO.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine whether sell-side security analysts gain access to value relevant information through political connections, and they measure analysts' political connections based on political contributions at the brokerage house level.