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Energy & Environmental · American Economic Review · 2025

Regulating Conglomerates: Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program in China

Qiaoyi Chen, Zhao Chen, Zhikuo Liu, Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Daniel Yi Xu

Energy regulations that target firms within larger conglomerates cause regulated firms to cut output and shifted production to unregulated affiliates within their conglomerate.

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State & Local · Journal of Accounting Research · 2025

Tax Subsidy Disclosure and Local Economic Effects

Lisa De Simone, Rebecca Lester, Aneesh Raghunandan

State and local business subsidies raise local employment when subject to internal government disclosure, while public disclosures have little effect.

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Federal · Working Paper · 2024

The Spiderweb of Partnership Tax Structures

Ryan Hess, Emily Black, Zaynah Javed, Jonathan Hennessy, Rebecca Lester, Jacob Goldin, Daniel E. Ho, Annette Portz

Tracing income through millions of partnership entities in U.S. tax data, we show that audits of complex partnerships yield a high return-on-investment relative to corporate audits.

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