Selected Faculty Research

Robert S. Hansen’s paper “Are Analysts’ Forecasts Informative to the General Public?” has been accepted for publication in Management Science. Hansen, Francis Martin Chair in Business and professor of finance, co-authored the paper with Vadim Balashov, adjunct lecturer and doctoral student at the Freeman School, and Oya Altınkılıç, assistant professor of finance at George Washington University.

Kris Hoang’s paper “How Do Regulatory Reforms to Enhance Auditor Independence Work in Practice?” has been accepted for publication in Contemporary Accounting Research. Hoang, an assistant professor of accounting, co-authored the paper with Krista Fiolleau, assistant professor of accounting at the University of Waterloo; Karim Jamal, professor of accounting at the University of Alberta; and Shyam Sunder, professor of economics at Yale University.

Jennifer Merluzzi is the co-author of “Embedded Brokerage,” which will appear as a chapter in the upcoming book Research in the Sociology of Organizations. The article, co-authored with Ronald S. Burt, Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy at the University of Chicago, discusses the complementary relationship between status and access to structural holes in the context of network advantage. In addition, Merluzzi’s paper “Social Capital in Asia: Investigating Returns to Brokerage in Collectivistic National Cultures” has been accepted for publication in Social Science Research. Merluzzi is an assistant professor of management.

Geoffrey Parker’s paper “Integration and Cospecialization of Emerging Complementary Technologies by Startups” has been accepted for publication in Production and Operations Management. The paper, co-authored with Edward G. Anderson Jr., associate professor of Information, Risk, and Operations Management at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes the market entry problem faced by startups that must integrate their service or product with one or more complementary technologies. The authors seek to extend the entrepreneurship literature by modeling startups’ entry decisions for markets in which complementary technologies exhibit strong learning effects. Parker is a professor of management science.

John R. Page’s paper “Bank Accounting Practices and Current Financial System Uncertainty” has been accepted for publication in The CPA Journal. The paper, co-authored with Paul Hooper, retired professor of accounting at the University of Delaware and former visiting professor at Tulane University, explores some of the factors contributing to uncertainty on bank financial statements, in particular issues regarding the calculation of capital adequacy ratios. Page is an associate professor of accounting.

Robert Prilmeier’s paper “This Time Is the Same: Using Bank Performance in 1998 to Explain Bank Performance during the Recent Financial Crisis” was published in the December 2012 issue of the Journal of Finance. The paper, co-authored with Rüdiger Fahlenbrach and René M. Stulz, shows that a bank’s stock return performance during the 1998 crisis strongly predicts its stock return performance and probability of failure during the recent financial crisis. These findings are consistent with persistence in a bank’s risk culture and/or aspects of its business model that make its performance sensitive to crises. Banks that relied more on short-term funding, had more leverage and grew more are more likely to be banks that performed poorly in both crises. Prilmeier is an assistant professor of finance.

Janet Schwartz’s paper “Price Inferences for Sacred vs. Secular Goods: Changing the Price of Medicine Influences Perceived Health Risk” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Consumer Research. Schwartz, an assistant professor of marketing, co-authored the paper with Adriana Samper, assistant professor of marketing at Arizona State University.