This research investigates the role of financial literacy on initiating and achieving a favorable negotiation outcome in an employment context. With a goal of improving long-term financial well-being, extant research examines whether increasing a person's understanding of basic financial...

This research examines how investment experience and financial literacy impact investment-related judgments. Financial literacy refers to a person's knowledge of fundamental financial concepts. I begin by documenting investors' demographic characteristics and financial literacy using a...

This research examines how investment experience and financial literacy impact investment-related judgments. Financial literacy refers to a person's knowledge of fundamental financial concepts. I begin by documenting investors' demographic characteristics and financial literacy using a...

A concurrent session at the 2011 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting featured the panel discussion “Financial Market Regulation and Opportunities for Accounting Research.” Structuring their comments around their unique interests and expertise, the panelists covered diverse topics...

We examine how accounting transparency and investor base jointly affect financial analysts' expectations of mispricing (i.e., expectations of stock price deviations from fundamental value). Within a range of transparency, these two factors interactively amplify analysts' expectations of...

A challenge that corporate managers face is how to enhance the credibility of their good news earnings forecasts. In the first part of my dissertation, I review the literature on two-sided advertisement from the marketing literature and the literature on management credibility in accounting. I...

Although prior research presents employees' subjective valuations of their stock options as being either below or above firms' opportunity cost of issuing options, we examine subjective valuations in terms of their distribution around cost. We argue that variation of subjective valuations within...

We examine how accounting disclosures affect users' assessments of management credibility and, in turn, their expectations of the auditor. In a lease obligation setting, our experiment separates the effects of understanding the financial impact of accounting treatment (by manipulating the...