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I work on both empirical and modeling research in financial accounting, specifically on the role of accounting disclosures within the context of informed decision making. This includes analyizing the content of accounting disclosures and how people process that content. I'm particularly interested in how ambiguity aversion and concerns for robustness affect investor and firm choices

My empirical research includes work on the relation between dividends and manipulated earnings, measures of accounting conservatism and analyst forecasts.

Publications:

Information in equity markets with ambiguity averse investors
2009, Review of Financial Studies 22(9): 3595-3627 ( Abstract, PDF)

Reporting Bias with an Audit Committee (with Venky Nagar and Paolo Petacchi)
The Accounting Review (Forthcoming ) (Abstract)

Working papers:

Efficiency properties of impairment accounting in debt contracting
(November-2008, with John Hughes) (Abstract, PDF)

Leverage, excess leverage and future stock returns
(May-2008, with John Hughes and Jing Liu) (Abstract, PDF)

On the estimation of the asymmetric timeliness of earnings: Inference and bias corrections
(Jan-2009, with Kyle Peterson) (Abstract, PDF)

Do dividends indicate honesty? The relation between dividends and the quality of earnings
(Dec-2005, with Michelle Hanlon) (Abstract, PDF)