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Publications

• "Audit Committee Auditor-Director Interlocking , Audit Pricing and Industry Specialization", International Journal of Corporate Governance, 9(4), 428-461, 2018 (with Xu, X.)
• "Management Earnings Forecasts, CEO Incentives and Risk-taking", Advances in Accounting, 42(September), 1-136, 2018 (with Xu, X.)
• "Unexpected Fees and Material Weaknesses in Internal Control over Financial Reporting ", Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, 33(4), 485-505, 2018 (with Elder, R., Xu, X.)

• "Real Options Models for Proactive Uncertainty-Reducing Mitigations and Applications in Cybersecurity Investment Decision-Making", Information Systems Research, 2018
• "Operational IT Failures, IT Value-Destruction, and Board-Level IT Governance Changes", MIS Quarterly, 41(3), 729-762, 2017 (with Chernobai, A.)
• "Contract Design Choices and the Balance of Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Transaction Costs in Software Development Outsourcing", MIS Quarterly, 40(1), 55-82, 2016 (with Lichtenstein, Y., Fink, L.)

• "State Pension Accounting Estimates and Public Union Membership", Contemporary Accounting Research, 36(3), 1299-1336, 2019 (with Bonsall, S., Muller, K.)
• "Setting Expected Rates of Return on Pension Plan Assets: New Evidence on the Influence of Audit Committee Accounting Experts", Research in Accounting Regulation, 29(2), 159-166, 2017 (with Guo, J., Zhang, Y., Zhou, N.)
• "Does Auditor Size Matter? Evidence from Small Audit Firms", Advances in Accounting, 31(1), 11-20, 2015 (with Huang, H.)

• "Does Benchmark-Beating Detect Earnings Management? Evidence from Accounting Irregularities", Advances in Accounting, 41(June 2018), 25-45, 2018 (with Shi, L., Xie, H.)
• "Bilateral implicit taxes and anti-competitive banking regulation", Journal of the American Taxation Association, 31(2), 45-73, 2009 (with Kilic, E.)
• "Evidence that investors trade on private event-period information around earnings announcements", Accounting Review, 80(2), 403-421, 2005 (with Barron, O., Stanford, M.)

• "Does Software Process Improvement Reduce the Severity of Defects? ALongitudinal Field Study", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 38(4), 810-827, 2012 (with Kemerer, C., Slaughter, S.)
• "Impact of Budget and Schedule Pressure on Software Development Cycle Time and Effort", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 35(5), 624-637, 2009 (with Nan, N.)

• "The financial expertise of CFOs and accounting restatements", Accounting Horizons, 19(3), 123-135, 2005 (with Aier, J., Comprix, J., Gunlock, M.)

• "External Corporate Governance and Misreporting", Contemporary Accounting Research, 32(4), 1413-1442, 2015 (with Baber, W., Kang, S., Zhu, Z.)
• "The Effect of Fair Value versus Historical Cost Reporting Model on Analyst Forecast Accuracy", The Accounting Review, 89(3), 1151-1177, 2014 (with Riedl, E.)
• "Analyst Pessimism and Forecast Timing", Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 40(5&6), 719-739, 2013 (with Barron, O., Byard, D.)

• "In short supply: Short sellers and stock returns", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2015
• "Earnings manipulation and expected returns", Financial Analysts Journal, 69(2), 57-82, 2013 (with Beneish, M., Lee, C.)
• ""Earnings manipulation and expected returns": Author response", Financial Analysts Journal, 69(5), 14, 2013 (with Beneish, M., Lee, C.)

• "Targeting and Salesforce Compensation: When sales spillover to unprofitable customers", Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 2018 (with Banerjee, S.)
• "The Impact of Audit Quality on the Components of Executive Cash Compensation. ", Journal of Centrum Cathedra: The Business and Economics Research Journal , 10(1), 49-62, 2017 (with D, F.)
• "The Role of Non-financial Measures in Controlling Myopic Activities: The Case of Hard-selling. ", International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation, 12( 2), 103-130, 2016

• "Defect propagation at the project-level: results and a post-hoc analysis on inspection efficiency", Empirical Software Engineering, 2017
• "Enhancing Analysts’ Mental Models for Improving Requirements Elicitation: A Two-Stage Theoretical Framework and Empirical Results", Journal of AIS, 2016 (with Zahedi, M., Jain, H.)
• "A knowledge based component/service repository to enhance analysts’ domain knowledge for requirements analysis", Information & Management, 49(1), 24-35, 2012 (with Jain, H., Zahedi, F.)