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Jennifer Blouin

Associate Professor of Accounting


Professor Jennifer Blouin’s research centers on the role of taxation in firm decision making.

Professor Blouin studies taxation in many contexts, including capital structure, asset pricing, payout policy and multinational firm behavior. Professor Blouin's research has been published in top-tier academic journals including Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, National Tax Journal and the Journal of the American Taxation Association. She has received funding from the Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research, the Global Initiatives Research Program and the International Tax Policy Forum. In addition, Professor Blouin is a 2009-2010 Golub Faculty Scholar.

Professor Blouin teaches taxation to undergraduate, MBA, and PhD students. She received her PhD in Accounting from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill and her BS from Indiana University – Bloomington.

Publications
Christopher Armstrong, Jennifer Blouin, David Larcker (2011), The incentives for tax planning, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Forthcoming.
Jennifer Blouin (2011), Discussion of Do Debt Constraints Influence Firms’ Sensitivity to a Temporary Tax Holiday on Repatriations, The Journal of the American Taxation Association, Forthcoming.
Jennifer Blouin, J. Raedy, D. Shackelford (2011), Dividends, Share Repurchases, and Tax Clienteles: Evidence from the 2003 Reductions in Shareholder Taxes, The Accounting Review, (May).
Jennifer Blouin, John Core, Wayne Guay (2010), Have the tax benefits of debt been overestimated?, Journal of Financial Economics, (November): 195-213.
Jennifer Blouin, Cristi Gleason, Lillian Mills, Stephanie Sikes (2010), Pre-Empting Disclosure? Firms' Decisions Prior to FIN No. 48, The Accounting Review, (May): 791-815.

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Current Research
Jennifer Blouin, Linda Krull, Leslie Robinson 2011, Is U.S. Multinational Intra-Firm Dividend Policy Influenced by Reporting Incentives?
Jennifer Blouin, Leslie Robinson, Jeri Seidman 2011, Coordination of Transfer Prices on Intra-Firm Trade
Jennifer Blouin, Mary Ellen Carter 2010, The Economics of Restricted Stock and the Section 83(B) Election
Jennifer Blouin, Irem Tuna 2009, Tax Contingencies: Cushioning the Blow to Earnings?
Jennifer Blouin, Linda K. Krull, Casey Schwab 2007, The Effect of the Domestic Manufacturing Deduction on Corporate Payout Behavior

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In The News
Tasting Three Flavors of Tax Software, New York Times, 02/13/2011, Jennifer Blouin

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Knowledge@Wharton
Not a Dirty Word: How Companies Use Debt to Improve Their Bottom Line, 02/04/2009, Jennifer Blouin

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Honors And Awards
Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Grant, 2010-2011
MBA Teaching Commitment and Curricular Innovation Awards, 2010
American Taxation Association Tax Manuscript Award, 2010
International Tax Policy Forum Research Grant, 2009-2011
Global Initiatives Fellowship, 2009-2011

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Blouin Jennifer
Jennifer Blouin
 1315 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6365
Phone: (215) 898-1266
Fax: (215) 573-2054
blouin@wharton.upenn.edu

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Research Interests:
Taxation; effects of taxes on asset pricing; taxes and corporate payout behavior