Spotlight Publications
The faculty and doctoral students publish regularly in some of the top academic journals around the globe. Here are some spotlight publications, by department.
Accounting

Gone But Not Forgotten: Investor Reaction to Excluded Recurring Expenses.

Journal of Accounting & Economics, Vol. 80, August 2025, 101799.

Laura Kettell (Ph.D. 2023) and John McInnis. 

The Need to Validate Exogenous Shocks: Shareholder Derivative Litigation, Universal Demand Laws and Firm Behavior.

Journal of Accounting & Economics, Vol. 73, Issue 1, February 2022

Dain Donelson, Laura Kettell (Ph.D. ’23), John McInnis, and Sara Toynbee

Remote Tax Authority.

Journal of Accounting & Economics, Vol. 75, Issues 2–3, 2023

Andrew Belnap, Anthony Welsch (Ph.D. 2023), and Braden Williams

Do Accounting Earnings Provide Useful Information for State Tax Revenue Forecasts?

Review of Accounting Studies, 2025, Vol. 30 (1): 813–859

Anthony Welsch (Ph.D. 2023), Lil Mills, and Brady Williams

Interest in the Short Interest: The Rise of Private Sector Data.

Contemporary Accounting Research, forthcoming

Yong Chen, Minjae Kim (Ph.D. 2024), John McInnis, and Wuyang Zhao

The Relevance and Pricing of Non-income Tax Relief.

Contemporary Accounting Research, 2022, Vol. 39 (3): 1797–1833

Michael Drake, Ryan Hess (Ph.D. ’21), Jaron Wilde, and Brady Williams

Finance

Quasi-Insider Shareholder Activism: Corporate Governance at the Periphery of Control

Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 2025

Johnathan Cohn, Mitch Towner (Ph.D. ’15), and Aazam Vir

Why Is the Fragmented Municipal Bond Market So Costly to Investors and Issuers?

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2025

Samuel Kruger, John Griffin, and Nicholas Hirschey (Ph.D. ’12)

 

Currency Management by International Fixed Income Mutual Funds

Journal of Finance, 2024

Clemens Sialm and Qifei Zhu (Ph.D. ‘18)

 

The Negativity Bias and Perceived Return Distributions: Evidence from a Pandemic

Journal of Financial Economics, 2023

Laura Stark, Richard Sias (Ph.D. ‘92) and H. Turtle

Self-enforcing Contracts with Persistence

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2022

William Fuchs, Jangwoo Lee (PhD ‘20) and Martin Dumav

IROM

Organic waste bans have failed to divert waste away from landfills in the United States—except in Massachusetts.

Science, 2024.

Anglou, F. Z, Sanders, R.E. , Stamatopoulos, I.

Score Forgetting Distillation: A Swift, Data-Free Method for MU in Diffusion Models.

ICLR, 2025.

Chen, T., Zhang, S., and Zhou, M.

A machine learning framework for assessing experts’ decision quality.

Management Science, 71. 2024.

Dong, W., Saar-Tsechansky, M., & Geva, T.

Robust Financial Networks,

Operations Research, 72(5), 1827-1842. 2024.

Feihong Hu, Daniel Mitchell, Stathis Tompaidis. 

Peer influence in the workplace: Evidence from an enterprise digital platform

MIS Quarterly48(4), 1559-1574. 2024.

Liu, H., Wen, W., Whinston, A. B., & He, S. (2024).

Countering State-Controlled Media Propaganda Through Labeling: Evidence from Facebook.

Information Systems Research, 35(3), 1435-1447. 2023.

Moravec, P., Collis, A., & Wolczynki, N.

Algorithmic Social Injustice: Antecedents and Mitigations.

MIS Quarterly, forthcoming.

Tanriverdi, H. and Akinyemi, J.O.

Partially interpretable estimators (PIE): black-box-refined interpretable machine learning.

Informs Journal of Computing (IJOC), 2025.

Wang, T., Yang, J., Li, Y., and Wang, B.

 

Management

The ties that cope? Reshaping social connections in response to pandemic distress.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 2021.
Jo, J. K. (Ph.D. 2021), Harrison, D. A., & Gray, S. M.

Mixed messages: Why managers (do not) endorse employee voice.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2022.
Burris, E. R., Martins, L. L., & Kimmons, Y. (Ph.D. 2018)

How does diversity affect team cognitive processes? Understanding the cognitive pathways underlying the diversity dividend in teams.
Academy of Management Annals, 2022.
Martins, Luis L., & Sohn, Wonbin (Ph.D. 2023)

Credentials or chemistry? Entrepreneur gender and cofounder selection.
Academy of Management Journal, 2024.
Gray, S. M., Howell, T., Strassman, J. (Ph.D. 2025), & Yamamoto, K. (PhD 2025)

Risky business: How standardization as coordination tool in ecosystems impacts firm‐level uncertainty.
Strategic Management Journal, 2024.
Toh, P. K., & Pyun, E. (Ph.D. 2022)

Corporate investment relationships and the search for innovations: An examination of startups’ search shift toward incumbents.
Organization Science, 2021.
Polidoro Jr, F., & Yang, W. (Ph.D. 2019)

Porting learning from interdependencies back home: Performance implications of multihoming for complementors in platform ecosystems.
Strategic Management Journal, 2024.
Polidoro Jr, F., & Yang, W. (Ph.D. 2019)

Marketing

Mapping collective consciousness to consumer research: In-person to virtual social presence.
Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2024.
Zheng, Jianqing (Frank) (Ph.D. 2020), Lee, Hyunjung Crystal, & Broniarczyk, Susan M.

I Share, Therefore I Know? Sharing Online Content – Even Without Reading It – Inflates Subjective Knowledge.
Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2023.
Zheng, Jianqing (Frank) (Ph.D. 2020), Ward, Adrian F., & Broniarczyk, Susan M.

Trickle Down Spending: The Role of Income Inequality on Gift Giving Spending.
Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 2023.
Alberhasky, Max (Ph.D. 2023), & Gershoff, Andrew D.

Customer Orientation and Financial Performance: Women in Top Management Matter!
Journal of Marketing, 2023.
Srivastava, C. (Ph.D. 2019), Kashmiri, S., & Mahajan, V.

Push and Pull: Modeling Mobile App Promotions and Consumer Responses.
Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 2025.
Liu, Z. (Ph.D. 2017), Duan, J.A., & Mahajan, V.

Dynamics and Peer Effects of Brand Value in College Sports.
International Journal of Research in Marketing, 2020.
Liu, Z. (Ph.D. 2017), Duan, J.A., & Mahajan, V.

A Sign of Divine Intervention: Supernatural Interpretation of Coincidence Lowers Consumer Punishment of Unethical Firms.
Journal of Consumer Behavior, 2025.
Namkoong, Jae-Eun (Ph.D. 2014), Han, Jerry (Ph.D. 2018), & Gershoff, Andrew D.

EXPRESS: Fit to Persuade: The Role of Source–Appeal Congruence in Cancer Screening Decisions.
Journal of Marketing, 2025.
Nivsarkar, A. (Ph.D. 2025), Ponnappan, V., Satyavageeswaran, P., & Bharadwaj, S.

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