Nick Shaxson ■ Quote of the day: CEO narcissism and tax avoidance

Quote of the day: CEO narcissism and tax avoidance

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19 June 2014

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Caravaggio's Narcissus. And the artist hadn't even met a modern corporate CEO

Caravaggio’s Narcissus. And the artist hadn’t even met a modern corporate CEO

From a new paper entitled CEO narcissism and tax policies (via TaxProf):

“We document a positive association between CEO narcissism and various measures of corporate tax avoidance and tax risk.”

We haven’t read the paper yet but the correlation, which may simply be a matter of amusement for some, is unlikely to be a spurious one.

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Nick Shaxson

Nicholas Shaxson is a journalist and writer on the staff of Tax Justice Network. He is author of the book Poisoned Wells about the oil industry in Africa, published in 2007, and the more recent Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the Men who Stole the World, published by Random House in January 2011. He lives in Berlin.

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