In Blackburn et al. (2012) entrepreneurs need external resources for investment and can reduce the level of information costs and the financial outlays by supplying more collateral. Supplying more collateral, however, involves a higher tax burden. Given the financial costs, entrepreneurs choose whether or not to evade taxes and to operate underground. Ellul et al. (2012) suggest that when firms choose accounting transparency, they trade off the benefits of access to more abundant and cheaper capital against the cost of a higher tax burden, and study this trade-off in a model with distortionary taxes and endogenous rationing of external finance