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Research & Impact

Faculty Research

Faculty in the Accounting & Finance Department regularly publish cutting-edge research in top academic journals, win external funding for their research, and receive awards for their scholarship.

  • “Rounding of Earnings Per Share and Managerial Insider Selling” (Robert Kim, with external co-authors) Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics.
  • “Less Timely Earnings Announcements and Voluntary 8-K Filings” (Robert Kim, with external co-authors), Journal of Business Finance & Accounting.
  • “Do More Able Managers Provide Better Non-GAAP Earnings?”, (Robert Kim, with external co-authors) Accounting & Finance.
  • “Does Sell-Side Debt Research Have Investment Value?” (Robert Kim, with external co-authors) Accounting and Business Research.
  • "Does Competition Exacerbate Investment Inefficiencies? Evidence from Japanese Firms", (Surjit Tinaikar with Bo Xu*), International Review of Economics and Finance.
  • “Pay Inequalities and Readability of Corporate Financial Disclosures”, (KoEun Park) Managerial Finance.
  • “Does corporate social responsibility play a moderating role in trading silence prior to bad news earnings announcements?” (Atreya Chakraborty, Lucia Silva-Gao, Sangwan Kim and Liu, R.*) Journal of Corporate Accounting & Finance.
  • Firm-level risk of climate change: Evidence from climate disasters” (Ai, L.* Lucia Silva-Gao), Global Finance Journal.
  • “Executive compensation linked to corporate social responsibility and firm risk”, (Lucia Silva Gao, Zhou, H.* and an external co-author), International Journal of Managerial Finance, 19(2), pp.269-290.
  • “Corporate social responsibility and litigation risk: Evidence from securities class action lawsuits” (Atreya Chakraborty, Lucia Silva Gao and Musa, P.*), Accounting & Finance.
  • “Are California Venture Capitalists The Best Venture Capitalists?” (Tyler Hull with Luna Goldblatt*) Cogent Economics & Finance.
  • “Style drifts in venture capital”, (Tyler Hull) in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity.
  • Corporate Patenting, Customer Capital, and Financial Market Outcomes” (Mine Ertugrul, Bo Xu* and other external co-authors), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
  • "Generalist CEOs, management risk and internal control weaknesses, (Xiaolu Xu), Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.
  • How do auditors respond to clients’ technological peer pressure? Evidence from going-concern opinions” (Xiaolu Xu and other external co-authors) Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.
  • “Market for corporate control and demand for auditing: Evidence from international M&A laws” (Jay Lee with external co-authors) Review of Accounting.
  • “Does the market value the accounting expertise of chief financial officers? evidence from the market value of cash holdings” (Jay Lee, Li Gao* and Yong-Chul Shin), Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance.
  • "Technological Peer Pressure and Skill Specificity of Job Postings," (Chi Wan and external co-authors) Contemporary Accounting Research.
  • "Is social capital associated with individual social responsibility? The case of social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic", (Chi Wan and external co-authors), Empirical Economics.
  • "Fund manager skill in an era of globalization: Offshore concentration and fund performance," (Chi Wan and external co-authors), Journal of Financial Economics.
  • "Social capital and individual ethics: Evidence from financial advisers’ misconduct," (Chi Wan, Yijia Eddie Zhao and external co-authors), Journal of Business Ethics.
  • "Active Technological Similarity and Mutual Fund Performance," (Chi Wan and external co-authors), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
  • “Corporate Social Responsibility Report Readability, Credit Ratings and Cost of Borrowing”, (Kun Yu and Priya Garg*), Review of Accounting and Finance.

*UMass Boston PhD student.