BGS Faculty Research
2012
Dain C. Donelson, John M. McInnis(University of Texas, Accounting), & Richard D. Mergenthaler Jr.(University of Iowa), "Discontinuities and Earnings Management: Evidence from Restatements Related to Securities Litigation," Contemporary Accounting Research (Forthcoming)
Dain C. Donelson & Robert Resutek(Dartmouth College), "The Effect of R&D on Future Returns and Earnings Forecasts," Review of Accounting Studies (Forthcoming)
2011
John R. Allison, Emerson H. Tiller (Northwestern University), Samantha Zyontz (George Mason University), & Tristan Bligh(Northwestern University), “Patent Litigation and the Internet,” Stanford Technology Law Review (Accepted 2011).
John R. Allison, Mark A. Lemley (Stanford), & Joshua W. Walker (Stanford), “Patent Quality and Risk Aversion Among Repeat Patent Litigants,” Georgetown Law Journal.
Dain C. Donelson, Ross Jennings, & John McInnis, "Changes Over Time in the Revenue-Expense Relation: Accounting or Economics?," The Accounting Review, 86 (3).
Dain C. Donelson and D. Zaring, "Requiem for a Regulator: The Office of Thrift Supervision and the Financial Crisis," North Carolina Law Review, 89 (5).
Robert A. Prentice, “Permanently Reviving the Temporary Insider,” Journal of Corporation Law, 36: 343-389 (2011)
Robert A. Prentice, "Moral Equilibrium: Stock Brokers and the Limits of Disclosure," Wisconsin Law Review.
David Spence & Robert A. Prentice, "The Transformation of American Energy Markets and the Problem of Market Power," Boston College Law Review.
David Spence, “Corporate Social Responsibility in the Oil and Gas Industry,” Chicago-Kent Law Review, 86:59-85.
David Spence, "Regulation, Republican Moments' and Energy Policy Reform," BYU Law Review.
David Spence, "Climate Change and the Electric Grid: Promise and Performance," San Diego Journal of Climate Change and Energy Law.
2010
John R. Allison, Mark A. Lemley, and Joshua W. Walker, “Extreme Value or Trolls on Top? Characteristics of the Most-Litigated Patents,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 158:1-37.
Frank B. Cross and Dain Donelson, "Creating Quality Courts," Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 7:490-510.
Frank B. Cross, James F. Spriggs II, Timothy R. Johnson, and Paul J. Wahlbeck, "Citations in the U.S. Supreme Court: An Empirical Study of Their Use and Significance," Illinois Law Review, 489-575.
Michael Luchs, Rebecca Walker Naylor, Julie R. Irwin and Rajagopal Raghunathan, “The Sustainability Liability: Potential Negative Effects of Ethicality on Product Preference,” Journal of Marketing, 74:18-31.
Robert A. Prentice, “New Directions in Legal Scholarship: Implications for Business Ethics Research, Theory, and Practice,” Business Ethics Quarterly (with John Hasnas & Alan Strudler),
Robert A. Prentice and Dain C. Donelson, “Insider Trading as a Signaling Device,” American Business Law Journal, 47(1):1-73.
David Spence, “The Political Barriers to a National RPS,” Connecticut Law Review, 42:1451-73.
2009
Arti K. Rai (Duke University), John R. Allison, Bhaven Sampat (Columbia University), “University Software Ownership and Litigation: A First Examination,” North Carolina Law Review, 87:1519-1570.
Frank B. Cross, “Collegiality and Ideology in the Courts,” Northwestern Law Review, 1399-1426.
Frank B. Cross and Stefanie Lindquist, "Judging the Judges," Duke Law Journal 58:1383-1437.
Frank B. Cross, "Collegiality and Ideology in the Courts," Northwestern Law Review, 103:1399-1426.
Frank B. Cross and Stefanie Lindquist, “Measuring Judicial Activism,” New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Leonardo Nicolao, Julie R. Irwin and Joseph Goodman, “Happiness for Sale: Do Experiential or Material Purchases Lead to Greater Retrospective Happiness?” Journal of Consumer Research, 36 (August):188-198.
Julie R. Irwin and Rebecca Walker Naylor, “Ethical Decisions and Response Mode Compatibility: Weighting of Ethical Attributes in Consideration Sets Formed by Excluding versus Including Product Alternatives,” Journal of Marketing Research, 46 (April):234-246.
Robert A. Prentice, “Scheme Liability: Does It Have a Future After Stoneridge?” Wisconsin Law Review, 351-419.
David Spence, “Why Does ERCOT Have Only One Regulator,” in Electricity Restructuring: The Texas Story (Keisling and Kleit, eds., The AEI Press (with Darren Bush).
BGS Faculty-Authored Texts
John R. Allison, Arti K. Rai (Duke University), & Bhaven Sampat (Columbia Univ.), University Software: Patents, Open Source, and Commercialization, in Perspectives on Commercizlizing Innovation, Cambridge University Press (F. Scott Kieff & Troy A. Paredes, eds., forthcoming 2011).
Dean Bredeson, K. Goree (2011), Chapter 3 - Ethics and Corporate Responsibility. Jane Phelan (Ed.), Ethics in the Workplace (vol. 2, pp. TBD). Mason, OH: Cengage.
Dean Bredeson, J. Beatty and S. Samuelson (2011). Vicky True (Ed.), Essential of Business Law (vol. 3, pp. 800). Mason, OH: Cengage.
Dean Bredeson (2011). Vicki True, Kendra Brown (Ed.), Applied Business Ethics (1st ed., vol. 1, pp. 600). Mason, OH: Cengage.
Dean Bredeson and Robert Prentice (2009), Vicky True (Ed.), Student Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2nd ed., vol. 1, pp. 125). Mason, OH: Cengage.
Dean Bredeson, J. Beatty and S. Samuelson (2009) Vicky True (Ed.), Essentials of Business Law (vol. 3, pp. 800). Mason, OH: Cengage.
Frank Cross and Roger LeRoy Miller (2009), The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (7th ed.) Mason, OH: Cengage.
Frank Cross and Roger LeRoy Miller (2007), The Legal Environment Today: Business in Its Ethical, Regulatory, E-Commerce, and Global Setting (6th ed.) Mason, OH: Thomson Learning.
Frank Cross, Kenneth Clarkson, Gaylord Jentz, and LeRoy Miller (2009) Business Law: Text and Cases (11th ed.) Mason, OH: Cengage.
Frank Cross, LeRoy Miller, Gaylor Jentz (2009), Essentials of the Legal Environment (3d ed.) Mason, OH: Cengage
Robert Prentice (2010), The Ethical and Legal Environment of Accounting (4th ed.). Mason, OH: Cengage.
Robert Prentice and John Allison (2010), Business Law (11th ed.). Austin, TX: University of Texas Co-op.
David Spence (2010), Energy Economics and the Environment (3d ed.). New York, NY: Foundation Press. (with F. Bosselman, J. Eisen, J. Rossi and J. Weaver).
Multimedia and Press Mentions
Blogs
Professor Michael Brandl:
Macroeconomic Update
Popular Press
Professor Drew Thornley:
A federalist answer to our need for a better electrical grid , Op-ed, Washington Examiner, September 21, 2010
Climategate Is Still Relevant, MasterResource blog, January 22, 2010
Climate Bill’s Still-Unanswered Questions, July 30, 2009
Emissions Control, Myths, and Realities, The American, Journal of the American Enterprise Institute, June 19, 2009
Exploding myths on energy, environment, Op-ed, Washington Examiner, April 21, 2009
Enabling Unrealistic Energy Plans Is A Woefully Ill-Informed Public, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, April 20, 2009
Florida Commission Rejects Claim Higher Energy Costs Save Money, Environment & Climate News, November 1, 2009
Cubans and Russians May Drill Near Florida Shore, Environment & Climate News, November 1, 2009
Earthquake Fears Halt California Geothermal Project, Environment & Climate News, October 1, 2009
U.S. Air Quality Continues to Improve, Environment & Climate News, October 1, 2009
Asian Greenhouse Gas Emissions Growing Rapidly, Environment & Climate News, August 1, 2009
Alabama Legislature Rejects Waxman-Markey Principles, Environment & Climate News, August 1, 2009
EPA Rules CO2 a Danger, Prepares to Regulate, Environment & Climate News, July 1, 2009
Ethanol: By the Numbers, Michigan Science, June 9, 2009
Obama Budget Abandons Yucca Mountain, Environment & Climate News, May 1, 2009
Study: Tax Code Punishes Efficient Resources, Environment & Climate News, April 1, 2009
California Rejects Oil Agreement between Industry and Greens, Environment & Climate News, April 1, 2009
Ethanol Industry Seeks Bailout Funds, Environment & Climate News, March 1, 2009
Houston Sees Record Low Ozone, Environment & Climate News, February 1, 2009
Letter to the Editor, The Wall Street Journal, July 8, 2010
Press Mentions
Professor Michael Brandl:
People@Work: Collective-Bargaining Rights Are at Stake in Wisconsin, Daily Finance, AOL News, February 22, 2011
People@Work: A Teenage Wasteland for Employment Opportunities, DailyFinance, AOL News, July 12, 2010
The Silver Screen Gets Swanky, KXAN News, April 28, 2010
Professor Frank Cross:
Court Under Roberts is Most Conservative in Decades, New York Times, July 24, 2010
Professor Robert Prentice:
PolitiFact Texas, Austin American-Statesman, July 19, 2010
Department Set to Launch at McCombs, The Daily Texan, August 9, 2010
Professor David Spence:
Politics of Oil: Will High Prices Spur Lawmakers to Act?, ABC News, March 8, 2011