同行业间避税与企业的战略反应——来自我国A股上市公司的经验证据  

Strategic Reactions to Corporate Tax Avoidance in China:Evidence from Listed Corporations

作　　者：李青原[1] 刘叶畅 LI Qingyuan;LIU Yechang(School of Economics and Management,Wuhan University)

机构地区：[1]武汉大学经济与管理学院

出　　处：《金融研究》2019年第10期152-169,共18页Journal of Financial Research

基　　金：国家社会科学基金重大项目(18ZDA113);国家自然科学基金面上项目(71672129)的资助

摘　　要：本文运用2007-2016年中国A股上市公司数据,引入同行业竞争者的股票异常回报作为工具变量,研究同行业竞争者避税行为对企业战略反应的影响。研究发现,相比国有企业,民营企业的同行业竞争者避税行为与企业避税存在战略互补效应,即同行业竞争者的避税行为越激进,企业会选择更加激进的避税策略。探究可能影响这种战略互补效应的机制,结果显示民营企业很可能会模仿同行业领导者等被认为避税行为更有效合理的竞争对手制定避税策略。进一步发现地理距离衰减有利于降低同行业信息收集成本,导致同行业间战略互补反应更显著,即同行业避税政策模仿具有"本土偏好"。本文提供了同行业竞争对企业避税影响的因果关系证据,揭示了同行业竞争者避税行为是企业避税行为的重要影响因素。In recent years, most research on the causes of corporate tax avoidance has focused on internal factors, such as a company’s managerial characteristics, or external factors, such as the macroeconomic cycle. Few studies have investigated corporate tax avoidance in relation to the interaction between the tax avoidance of companies in the same industry. The social economics research on non-market interaction effects has shown that it is challenging to identify the strategic responses of a company. Manski(1993) stated that the similarities between group members’ responses can be considered the result of exogenous effects, correlated effects, and endogenous effects(i.e., strategic reactions). To overcome the omitted variables and "reflection" problems, Manski(2000) later proposed an instrumental variable that only affects the behavior of certain individual group members without affecting the behavior of all of the members. Leary and Roberts(2014) validated the effectiveness of the instrumental variable of idiosyncratic returns in the tax avoidance literature.We use data on China’s A-share listed companies from 2007 to 2016 and use the idiosyncratic stock returns of enterprises in the same industry as the instrumental variable to test the relationship between the tax avoidance behaviors of competitors in the same industry(Leary and Roberts, 2014). In particular, we model a firm’s tax avoidance as a function of(i) its own firm-level characteristics,(ii) its common industry-level characteristics, and(iii) the tax avoidance decisions of its industry competitors(Rajan and Zingales, 1995;Leary and Roberts, 2014). We find that the tax avoidance of private enterprises in the same industry exhibits strategic complementarities whereby a change in a firm’s tax avoidance leads to a direct change in the tax avoidance of its industry competitors, and vice versa. We then explore the possible mechanism of the strategic complementarities and find that it may be explained by the leader-follower mechanism. Large firms arguably

关 键 词：公司所得税 避税行为 战略反应 同行业竞争者 

分 类 号：F27[经济管理—企业管理]