Papers and publications
Working Papers
"Optimal Performance Measures and Task Complementarity," with Anthony Nikias and Steven Schwartz, 2004.
[Complete Document in Word ]
"The Effect of Honesty Preferences and Superior Authority on Budget Proposals," with Bill Rankin, and Steven Schwartz, 2005.
[Complete Document in PDF]
"A Note on the Roles of Aggregation and Delay in Management Control," with Anthony Nikias and Steven Schwartz, 2004.
[Complete Document in Word ]
"Accounting in Perfect and Complete Markets," with John Fellingham, Douglas Schroeder, and Steven Schwartz, 2004.
[Complete Document in PDF]
"Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations in a
Capital Budgeting Setting," with John Butler and Steven Schwartz, January
2003.
[Complete Document in
PDF]
"An Experimental Investigation of Feedback and Bargaining
Power in a Managerial Control Setting," with Frederick Rankin and Steven
Schwartz, June 2003
[Complete Document in PDF].
"Contracting and Reputation Formation in a Repeated Investment
Setting," with John Butler and Steven Schwartz, December 2000.
[Complete Document in PDF]
"The Impact of Renegotiation and Reporting Systems
on Real Option Value," with Naomi Rothenberg, November 2000.
[Complete Document in PDF]
"Product Mix as a Framing Exercise: The Role of Cost
Allocations," with Anil Arya and Jonathan Glover, 1999.
[Complete Document in PDF]
"The Use of Operational Decisions as Management Control
Devices," with John Fellingham, 1997.
[Complete Document in Word]
"Income and Efficiency in Incomplete Markets," with
Anil Arya, John Fellingham, Jonathan Glover and Douglas Schroeder,
1996.
[Complete Document in Word]
"Double Entry Bookkeeping and Error Correction," with Anil Arya, John Fellingham and Douglas Schroeder, 1996.
[Complete Document in Word]
Published Articles
"Experiential Learning in Auditing: Four Experiments for the Classroom," with Steven Schartz and Eric Spires, Advances in Accounting Education 2004 .
[Complete Document in PDF]
"Management Control Using Non-binding Budgetary Announcements," with Frederick Rankin and Steven Schwartz, Journal of Management Accounting Research 2003.
[Complete Document in PDF]
"A Laboratory Investigation of Verification and Reputation
Formation in a Repeated Joint Investment Setting," with Steven Schwartz, Contemporary Accounting Research Summer 2002.
[Complete Document in PDF]
"The Tradeoff of Reliability for Relevance Within a Stewardship Setting," with Peter Woodlock, Managerial and Decision Economics September 2001.
"Reputation without Repeated Interaction: The Role of Public
Disclosure," with Steven Schwartz and Kristina Zvinakis, Review
of Accounting Studies December, 2000.
[Complete Document in PDF]
"Discussion comments on: Accounting Recognition,
Moral Hazard, and Communication," (presented at the November 1999 CAR
Conference), Contemporary Accounting Research Fall, 2000.
[Complete Document in PDF]
"Properties of Economic Income in a Private Information
Setting," with Mitchell Farlee and John Fellingham, Contemporary
Accounting Research Fall, 1996.
[Abstract, Complete Document in Word]
"The Role of Historical Cost Reports," with Anil
Arya and John Fellingham, Issues In Accounting Education Spring,
1996.
[Abstract
]
"The Effects of Risk Aversion on Production Decisions
in Decentralized Organizations," with Anil Arya and John Fellingham, Management Science 39, 1993, 794-805.
[Abstract,
Complete
Document in Word]
"Managerial Reporting Discretion and the Truthfulness
of Disclosures," with Anil Arya and Peter Woodlock, Economics Letters
39, 1992, 163-168.
[Abstract,
Complete
Document in Word]
"Contract-based Motivation for Keeping Records of
a Manager's Reporting and Budgeting History," with Anil Arya and John
Fellingham, Management Science 40, 1994, 484-495.
[Abstract,
Complete
Document in Word]
"Preference Representation and Randomization in Principal
Agent Contracts," with Anil Arya and John Fellingham, Economics
Letters 42, 1993, 25-30.
[Abstract,
Complete
Document in Word]
"Virtual Implementation in Separable Bayesian Environments
using Simple Mechanisms," with Anil Arya and Jonathan Glover, Games
and Economic Behavior 9, 1995, 127-138.
[Abstract,
Complete
Document in Word]
"Capital Budgeting in a Multidivisional Firm," with
Anil Arya and Jonathan GloverJournal of Accounting, Auditing and
Finance, Fall 1996.
[Abstract,
Complete
Document in Word]
"Mechanism Design under Alternative Information Structures
and Constrained Capacity," with Anil Arya and Jonathan Glover, Journal
of Economic Theory, forthcoming.
[Abstract,
Complete
Document in Word]
"The Value of Self-Reported Costs in Repeated Investment Decisions," (with John Fellingham), The Accounting Review, October 1990.
"Special Allocations, Investment Decisions and Transactions Costs in Partnerships," (with John Fellingham), Journal of Accounting Research, Autumn 1989.
"A Note on 'Economically Optimal Performance Evaluation and Control Systems': The Optimality of Two-tailed Investigations," Journal of Accounting Research, Spring 1986.
"Internal Audit Planning in an Interactive Environment," (with Urton Anderson, University of Texas), Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Autumn 1988).
"Strategic Auditing: A Different Game," (with Urton Anderson), Internal Auditing, Autumn 1988.
Invited Article
"U.S. Income Tax Transfer Pricing Rules and Resource Allocation:
The Case of Decentralized Multinational Enterprises: Discussion," Proceedings
of the 1989 University of Illinois Tax Research Symposium, Beck
and Willis, ed., 1989.