Scott Dyreng

Duke University - Accounting

Assistant Professor of Accounting

Box 90120, Fuqua School of Business

Durham, NC 27708-0120

United States

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1.

Exploring the Role Delaware Plays as a Domestic Tax Haven

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 12 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2013
Scott Dyreng, Bradley P. Lindsey and Jacob R. Thornock
Duke University - Accounting, Utah State University - School of Accountancy and Brigham Young University
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Delaware, Tax Haven, Tax Law, Tax Aggressiveness, Corporate Governance

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Long-Run Corporate Tax Avoidance

Accounting Review, Vol. 83, No. 1, 2007
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 27 Sep 2007
Scott Dyreng, Michelle Hanlon and Edward L. Maydew
Duke University - Accounting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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effective tax rate, tax persistence, cash tax, long-run tax avoidance

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The Effects of Executives on Corporate Tax Avoidance

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 11 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2012
Scott Dyreng, Michelle Hanlon and Edward L. Maydew
Duke University - Accounting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Tax avoidance, tax, manager effects, tax aggressive, effective tax rate, cash tax rate

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Changes in Corporate Effective Tax Rates Over the Past Twenty-Five Years

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 11 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2016
Scott Dyreng, Michelle Hanlon, Edward L. Maydew and Jacob R. Thornock
Duke University - Accounting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Brigham Young University
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Corporate tax rates, tax avoidance, trend

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When Does Tax Avoidance Result in Tax Uncertainty?

The Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 06 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2018
Scott Dyreng, Michelle Hanlon and Edward L. Maydew
Duke University - Accounting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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tax avoidance, tax uncertainty

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Public Pressure and Corporate Tax Behavior

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Public Pressure and Corporate Tax Behavior

Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2014-02-003
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 01 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2015
Scott Dyreng, Jeffrey L. Hoopes and Jaron H. Wilde
Duke University - Accounting, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Accounting Area and University of Iowa - Henry B. Tippie College of Business
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Public pressure, tax avoidance, reputation costs, disclosure, tax havens

Public Pressure and Corporate Tax Behavior

Journal of Accounting Research, Volume 54, Issue 1, Pages 147–186, March 2016
Posted: 22 Jun 2016
Scott Dyreng, Jeffrey L. Hoopes and Jaron H. Wilde
Duke University - Accounting, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Accounting Area and University of Iowa - Henry B. Tippie College of Business

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Real Effects of Disclosure; Corporate Taxation; Corporate Reputation

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Religious Social Norms and Corporate Financial Reporting

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Religious Social Norms and Corporate Financial Reporting

AAA 2010 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) Paper
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 06 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2015
Scott Dyreng, William J. Mayew and Christopher D. Williams
Duke University - Accounting, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Social Norms, Financial Reporting, Accounting Quality, Restatements, Effective Tax Rates, ETR

Religious Social Norms and Corporate Financial Reporting

Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Vol. 39, Issue 7‐8, pp. 845-875, 2012
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Oct 2012
Scott Dyreng, William J. Mayew and Christopher D. Williams
Duke University - Accounting, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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financial reporting, accrual choices, social norms, disclosure

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Contractual Complexity in Debt Agreements: The Case of EBITDA

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-67
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 26 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 07 May 2021
Adam B. Badawi, Scott Dyreng, Elisabeth de Fontenay and Robert Hills
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Duke University - Accounting, Duke University School of Law and Pennsylvania State University
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debt covenant, leverage, EBITDA, credit agreement, accruals, cash flows

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Using Financial Accounting Data to Examine the Effect of Foreign Operations Located in Tax Havens and Other Countries on US Multinational Firms' Tax Rates

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2009
Scott Dyreng and Bradley P. Lindsey
Duke University - Accounting and Utah State University - School of Accountancy
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Accounting for Income Taxes, Tax Haven, Effective Tax Rates

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Virtual Issue on Tax Research Published in the Journal of Accounting Research

Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise Research Paper No. 18-4
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 13 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 04 May 2018
Scott Dyreng and Edward L. Maydew
Duke University - Accounting and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Tax Avoidance; Accounting; Disclosure; Tax Planning; Asset Pricing

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Tax Incidence and Tax Avoidance

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 15 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2020
Scott Dyreng, Martin Jacob, Xu Jiang and Maximilian A. Müller
Duke University - Accounting, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Duke University and ESMT Berlin
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Tax Avoidance, Tax Burden, Tax Incidence

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The Cost of Private Debt Covenant Violation

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 27 Sep 2009
Scott Dyreng
Duke University - Accounting
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Debt Covenants, Book-Tax Conformity, Earnings Management, Accruals

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The Effect of U.S. Tax Reform on the Tax Burdens of U.S. Domestic and Multinational Corporations

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 30 Jun 2020
Scott Dyreng, Fabio B. Gaertner, Jeffrey L. Hoopes and Mary Vernon
Duke University - Accounting, University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Accounting and Information Systems, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Accounting Area and University of Connecticut
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corporate taxation, tax reform, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

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The Effect of Financial Constraints on Tax-Motivated Income Shifting by U.S. Multinationals

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 07 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2015
Scott Dyreng and Kevin Markle
Duke University - Accounting and Michigan State University
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Where Do Firms Manage Earnings?

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 23 May 2011 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2012
Scott Dyreng, Michelle Hanlon and Edward L. Maydew
Duke University - Accounting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Earnings management, rule of law, tax havens

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Direct Evidence on the Informational Properties of Earnings in Loan Contracts

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Direct Evidence on the Informational Properties of Earnings in Loan Contracts

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 12 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 02 May 2017
Scott Dyreng, Rahul Vashishtha and Joseph Weber
Duke University - Accounting, Duke University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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earnings properties, debt contracts, cash flow prediction, conservatism

Direct Evidence on the Informational Properties of Earnings in Loan Contracts

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 55, No. 2, 2017
Posted: 15 Sep 2017
Scott Dyreng, Rahul Vashishtha and Joseph Weber
Duke University - Accounting, Duke University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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earnings properties; debt contracts; cash flow prediction; conservatism

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Renegotiation Costs and Contract Design

28th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, Paris December 2017 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 07 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2021
Scott Dyreng, Elia Ferracuti and Arthur Morris
Duke University - Accounting, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Accounting
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Debt Contracts, Renegotiation Costs, TD9599

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Strategic Subsidiary Disclosure

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Strategic Subsidiary Disclosure

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 10 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2018
Scott Dyreng, Jeffrey L. Hoopes, Patrick Langetieg and Jaron H. Wilde
Duke University - Accounting, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Accounting Area, Government of the United States of America - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and University of Iowa - Henry B. Tippie College of Business
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financial disclosure, corporate tax, reputational costs of tax planning

Strategic Subsidiary Disclosure

Journal of Accounting Research, Volume 58, Issue 3, 2020
Posted: 02 Jul 2020
Scott Dyreng, Jeffrey L. Hoopes, Patrick Langetieg and Jaron H. Wilde
Duke University - Accounting, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Accounting Area, Government of the United States of America - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and University of Iowa - Henry B. Tippie College of Business

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financial disclosure; corporate tax; reputational costs of tax planning

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Evidence of Manager Intervention to Avoid Working Capital Deficits

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 24 May 2012 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2015
Scott Dyreng, William J. Mayew and Katherine Schipper
Duke University - Accounting, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
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reference points, financial reporting, working capital

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CEO Pay-for-Complexity and the Risk of Managerial Diversion from Multinational Diversification

AAA 2011 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2012
Dirk E. Black, Shane S. Dikolli and Scott Dyreng
University of Nebraska at Lincoln - School of Accountancy, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business and Duke University - Accounting
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CEO compensation, diversification, complexity

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Measurement Error when Estimating Covenant Violations

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 18 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2021
Scott Dyreng, Elia Ferracuti, Robert Hills and Matthew Kubic
Duke University - Accounting, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Pennsylvania State University and University of Texas at Austin
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Debt covenants, Covenant Slack, Covenant Violation

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The Effect of Tax and Nontax Country Characteristics on the Global Equity Supply Chains of U.S. Multinationals

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Jan 2015
Scott Dyreng, Bradley P. Lindsey, Kevin Markle and Douglas A. Shackelford
Duke University - Accounting, Utah State University - School of Accountancy, Michigan State University and University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
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international, tax, multinational

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Tax Planning Gone Awry: Do Tax-Motivated Firms Experience Worse Tax Outcomes from Losses Compared to Other Firms?

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 16 Dec 2018
Scott Dyreng, Christina Lewellen and Bradley P. Lindsey
Duke University - Accounting, North Carolina State University - Department of Accounting and Utah State University - School of Accountancy
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loss firms, tax avoidance, tax loss carrybacks

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Earnings Management to Avoid Debt Covenant Violations and Future Performance

Accounting Research Network, 2020
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 26 Oct 2020
Scott Dyreng, Stephen A. Hillegeist and Fernando Penalva
Duke University - Accounting, Arizona State University (ASU) - W. P. Carey School of Business, School of Accountancy and IESE Business School - University of Navarra
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earnings management; debt covenants violations; future firm performance

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Foreign Earnings Repatriations and Domestic Employment

Number of pages: 51
Scott Dyreng and Robert Hills
Duke University - Accounting and Pennsylvania State University
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Corporate Taxation, Repatriation, Employment

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Tax Deficits and the Income Shifting of U.S. Multinationals

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 17 Jan 2022
Scott Dyreng, Robert Hills and Kevin Markle
Duke University - Accounting, Pennsylvania State University and Michigan State University
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income shifting, tax havens, international tax

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Tax Deficits and the Income Shifting of U.S. Multinationals

Number of pages: 52
Scott Dyreng, Robert Hills and Kevin Markle
Duke University - Accounting, Pennsylvania State University and Michigan State University
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Corporate Taxation, Income Shifting, Tax Policy