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Selected publications

  • Deductible state tax payments: Empirical evidence of strategic prepayment (with S. Veliotis).
    Journal of the American Taxation Association, forthcoming.
     
  • Are Earnings Surprises Interpreted More Optimistically on Sunny Days? Accounting Information and the Sunshine Effect (with P. Zhou). Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance 24(2), Spring 2009: 211-232.
     
  • Do Stock Returns Vary With Campaign Contributions? Bush versus Gore: The Florida Recount. Economics & Politics, forthcoming.
     
  • Effective Controls for Research in International Accounting (with W. Ruland and P. Zhou). Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 26(1), Jan/Feb 2007: 96-116.
     
  • Do divergent opinions explain the value premium? (with P. Zhou)
    Journal of Investing, forthcoming.
     
  • Can Mispricing of Asset Growth Explain the Accruals Anomaly? (with P. Zhou). International Journal of Business and Finance Research 4(1), 2010: 73-83.
     
  • SOX 404 Effective Internal Control Systems and Executive Compensation (with R. Weiss). Journal of Applied Business and Economics 10(2), Winter 2009.
     
  • Corporate Disclosures After the September 11 Terrorist Attacks (with M. Cho and Y. Xie). International Journal of Business and Finance Research 3(2), 2009: 1669-175.
     
  • Voluntary Disclosures and Earnings Surprises: The Case of High-Tech Firms in Periods of Bad Economic News. Accounting & Taxation 1(1), 2009: 1-13.
     
  • Voluntary Disclosure Behavior During Exogenous Crisis Events (with R. Weiss). Journal of Applied Business and Economics 9(4), 2009: 9-16.

 

Selected working papers
Full pdf documents available upon request

  • Adverse recommendations, market sentiment, and analyst credibility (with G. Hilary).
    2nd round, Journal of Accounting Research
  • Why do stakeholders allow firms to become negative book value?
    Revising for 2nd round, Accounting Review
  • Cross-sectional determinants of sell-side analysts' dropped coverage (with S. Young).
    1st round,
    Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting
  • Does executive compensation incentivize managers to create effective internal control systems? (with T. Henry and R. Weiss)
    2nd round, Research in Accounting Regulations
     
     
  • Earnings management and auditor-client engagement tenure (with S. Lustgarten).
    1st round, Auditing: Journal of Practice and Theory
  • Analysts’ herding propensity: Theory and evidence from earnings forecasts (with M. Krishnan, S. Lim and P. Zhou).
    1st round,
    Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting
  • XBRL and its financial reporting benefits: Capital market evidence (with C. Tan).
    1st round, Journal of
    Information Systems
  • Do economic sanctions affect firm value? Quantifying source-country effects.
    Working paper
  • Conservative accounting choice and earnings' asymmetric timeliness.
    Work in progress
  • Cross-sectional determinants of earnings timeliness.
    Work in progress

 

 

 

 

 

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