Research

“Capital Market Concerns and Investment Incentives in Business Alliances,” with Thomas Pfeiffer, forthcoming, Review of Accounting Studies.

“Stability and regime change: the evolution of accounting standards,” with Li Yang, forthcoming, 2022, online available, The Accounting Review.

“Higher-Order Beliefs, Market-Based Incentives, and Information Quality,” with Alexander Wenning, 2022, online available, European Accounting Review.

“Insider Trading, Competition, and Real Activities Manipulation,” with Bjorn Jorgensen, 2022, Management Science 68(2): 1497–1511.

“Estimation Bias and Monitoring in Clean Development Mechanism Projects,” with Peter Letmathe and Naomi Soderstrom, 2021, Contemporary Accounting Research 38(1): 7-31.

“Market Exit Through Divestment—The Effect of Accounting Bias on Competition,” with Bjorn Jorgensen, 2018, Management Science 64(1): 164–177.

“Auditor-provided Lobbying Service and Audit Quality,” with Brian Burnett and Katherine Gunny, 2018, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance 33(3): 402–434. 

“The Effect of Agency Problems on Optimal Operating Leverage and Social Welfare,” 2015, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 34(3): 319–331.

“Pay-Performance Sensitivity before and after SOX," with Debra Jeter and Ya-wen Yang, 2015, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 34(1): 52–73.

“Corporate Lobbying and Financial Performance,” with David Parsley and Ya-Wen Yang, 2015, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting 42: 444–481.

"Do Regulatory Policies on Auditing Affect Executive Pay?" with Debra Jeter and Ya-Wen Yang, 2013, International Journal of Accounting Auditing and Performance Evaluation 9: 344–364.

“Decentralization, Transfer Pricing and Tacit Collusion,” with Mike Shor, 2009, Contemporary Accounting Research 26 (2): 581–604.

“The Role of Auditing in Buyer-Supplier Relations,” with Debra Jeter, 2008, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics 4: 1–18.

“Pay-Performance Sensitivity in a Heterogeneous Managerial Labor Market,” with Fei Leng, 2004, Journal of Management Accounting Research 16: 19–33.

“Career Concerns and 'Unpaid' Executives,” with Wei Luo and Naomi Soderstrom.

“Reporting Bias and Feedback Effect,” with Evgeny Petrov.

“Return on political investment in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004,” with Katherine Gunny and Karthik Ramanna.

“Profitability and Cost Shifting in Government Procurement Contracts,” with Katherine Gunny.

“Inventory Write-downs in the Semiconductor Industry,” with Sundaresh Ramnath, Srinivasan Rangan and Steve Rock.