Accounting Student Papers

Recent Dissertation Titles

  • "Quantitative Investing and Sell-Side Financial Analysts" Hui (Eva) Liang (2021)
  • "Regulatory Spillover: Evidence from Classifying Municipal Bonds as High-Quality Liquid Assets" Jacob Ott (2021)
  • "The Deterrent Effect of Whistleblowing on Insider Trading" Jacob Raleigh (2020)
  • "Wisdom of Crowds: Effect of Analysts Herding Around All Stars" Andrew Fluharty (2019)
  • "Voluntary Audit Committee Disclosures and Credibility of Financial Reporting" Xiaoli Guo (2019)
  • "Informational Costs and Contractual Benefits of Conservatism for Bond Investors" Iman Sheibany (2019)
  • "Fair Value Accounting, Prudential Regulation and Financial Contagion" Chao Tang (2018)
  • "Disciplining Role of Auditor Tenure and Mandatory Auditor Rotation" Aysa Dordzhieva (2017)
  • "Revisions versus Restatements: Managerial Discretion in Materiality Assessments" Rachel Thompson (2017)

Recent Graduate Placements

  • Jacob Ott, 2021, London School of Economics 
  • Jacob Raleigh, 2020, Monash University 
  • Xiaoli Guo, 2019, University of North Dakota
  • Iman Sheibany, 2019, University of Utah
  • Chao Tang, 2018, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Aysa Dordzhieva, 2017, University of Texas - Austin 
  • Rachel Thompson, 2017, University of Texas - El Paso

Student Publications and Presentations

  • "Investors' Attention to Mutual Funds via EDGAR", 2021, AAA Spark: Meeting of the Regions, Hui (Eva) Liang with X. Shao
  • "Quantitative Investing and Sell-Side Financial Analysis", 2020, AAA Annual Meeting, 2021, CAAA Annual Conference, AFAANZ Conference, Hui (Eva) Liang 
  • "Mandatory Disclosure of Negative Events and Auditor Behavior. Evidence from a Natural Experiment", 2020, North Dakota State University Accounting Seminar, 2021, AFAANZ Conference, CAAA Annual Conference, Hui (Eva) Liang with X. Guo and X. Shao
  • "Regulatory Spillover: Evidence from Classifying Municipal Bonds as High-Quality Liquid Assets", 2020, Municipal Finance Conference, 2021, London School of Economics Job Talk, Cornell Job Talk, Cornerstone Job Talk, Jacob Ott
  • "Blame Attribution and Disclosure Propensity", 2021, The Accounting Review, Yeo Sang (Johnny) Yoon with J. D. Schloetzer, A. Tseng, and T. L. Yohn
  • "Noise Trading: An Ad-Based Measure", 2019, China International Conference, 2020, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Roundtable, Xinyuan Shao with V. Fang and J. Madsen
  • "The Deterrent Effect of Whistleblowing on Insider Trading", 2019, Deloitte Doctoral Consortium, Jacob Raleigh
  • "Trading with Ads", 2018, BYU Accounting Research Symposium, Xinyuan Shao with V. Fang and J. Madsen
  • "What Causes PM2.5 Pollution? Cross-Economy Empirical Analysis from Socioeconomic Perspective", 2018, Energy Policy 119, Ethan Yao with X. Ji and X. Long
  • "Fair Value Accounting, Prudential Regulation and Financial Contagion," 2018, AAA Annual Meeting, Chao Tang
  • "Disciplining Role of Auditor Tenure and Mandatory Auditor Rotation," 2017, MARS Conference (Multi-disciplinary Academic and Research Summit), Aysa Dordzhieva
  • "The Effect of CEO Stock-based Compensation on Pricing of Future Earnings," 2017, European Accounting Review, 26(4), 651-679, Jae Bum Kim with B. Choi
  • "Fair Value Accounting, Prudential Regulation and Financial Contagion," 2017, AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium, Chao Tang
  • "Fair Value Accounting, Prudential Regulation and Financial Contagion," 2017, FARS Doctoral Consortium, Chao Tang