Research Interests

  • Financial Reporting
  • Product Market Competition
  • Corporate Governance
  • Debt and Equity Markets
  • International Accounting


  • Working Papers

  • "The Impacts of Product Market Competition on the Quantity and Quality of Voluntary Disclosures" [PDF]
       (Job Market Paper, Best Paper Award at 2009 Review of Accounting Studies Conference)

  • "Accounting Conservatism and the Cost of Capital: International Analysis"  [PDF]
       (revise and resubmit at The Accounting Review)

  • "Corporate Governance and Restrictions in Debt Contracts"
       (with Irem Tuna and Florin Vasvari)


    Work in Progress

  • "Financial Crisis and the Ability of Accounting Information to Explain Credit Spreads"
       (with Peter Easton, Steven Monahan, and Florin Vasvari)

  • "Returns to Socially Responsible Investing: A Clinical Study"
       (with Elroy Dimson and Oguzhan Karakas)
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