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Selected publications

  • Are earnings surprises interpreted more optimistically on sunny days? Accounting information and the sunshine effect (with P. Zhou). Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, forthcoming.
  • Effective controls for research in international accounting (with W. Ruland and P. Zhou). Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2007.

 

Selected working papers
Full pdf documents available upon request

  • Adverse recommendations, market sentiment, and analyst credibility (with G. Hilary)
  • Earnings management and auditor-client engagement tenure (with S. Lustgarten)
  • Do stock returns vary with campaign contributions? The Bush vs. Gore 2000 Presidential elections
  • Why do stakeholders allow firms to become negative book value?
  • Sell-side analysts' dropped coverage: Do analysts predict bad news or do they merely react to it? (with S. Young)
  • Does excess CEO compensation represent optimal pay for management talent? (with T. Henry and R. Weiss)
  • Is the accruals anomaly a special case of a more general growth anomaly? (with P. Zhou)
  • Do economic sanctions affect firm value? Quantifying source-country effects
  • The Relation Between Earnings Surprises and Voluntary Disclosures: The Case of High-Tech Firms in Periods of Bad Economic News
  • Conservative accounting choice and earnings' asymmetric timeliness
  • Cross-sectional determinants of earnings timeliness

 

 

 

 

 

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