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Selected publications

  • Deductible state tax payments: Empirical evidence of strategic prepayment (with S. Veliotis).
    Journal of the American Taxation Association, 32(2), 2010:.
     
  • 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, 22(3), 2010:.
  • 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, Summer 2010: 19(2), 53-62.
     
  • 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.
     
  • Does CFO compensation incentivize managers to create effective internal control systems? (with T. Henry and R. Weiss)
    Conditional acceptance, Research in Accounting Regulations
     

 

Selected working papers
Full pdf documents available upon request

  • Options Trading Around Earnings Announcement Days: How To Profit From Targeted Short-term Positions. Theory, Evidence, and Implementation. FT Press (Pearson Education), Upper Saddle River, NJ. Forthcoming.
     
  • Adverse recommendations, market sentiment, and analyst credibility (with G. Hilary).
    Revising for 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).
    Revising for 2nd round,
    Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting
     
  • XBRL and accruals: Empirical evidence from China (with E. Pand and C. Tan).
    Revising for 2nd round, Accounting Perspectives
  • Earnings management and auditor-client engagement tenure (with S. Lustgarten).
    1st round, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
  • Analysts’ herding propensity: Theory and evidence from earnings forecasts (with M. Krishnan, S. Lim and P. Zhou).
    1st round,
    Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance
  • XBRL and its financial reporting benefits: Capital market evidence (with C. Tan).
    1st round, International Journal of
    E-Business Research
     
  • XBRL and market reactions to corporate filings in China (with E. Pang and C. Tan).
    1st round,
    Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
  • Do economic sanctions affect firm value? Quantifying source-country effects.
    Work in progress
  • Conservative accounting choice and earnings' asymmetric timeliness.
    Work in progress
  • Cross-sectional determinants of earnings timeliness.
    Work in progress

 

 

 

 

 

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