Kristine Hankins’ article, “Understanding the Rise in Corporate Cash: Precautionary Savings or Foreign Taxes” (co-authored with Mike Faulkender and Mitchell Petersen), has been accepted for publication in the Review of Financial Studies.
Check out what's going on as we start the new academic year, with Simon J. Sheather, the new dean of the Gatton College of Business and Economics.
See footage from the Gatton Welcome, where the college welcomed 784 incoming first-year undergraduates from 33 states and 10 countries, who are part of a record-breaking more than 4,000 future business leaders studying at the Gatton College this year.
Keep an eye out for these updates once a month, where Dean Sheather will share the latest and greatest things going on at Gatton!
The University of Kentucky welcomes the 2018/19 Professional MBA class to the Gatton College of Business and Economics.
On August 9th, VASOA PhD student, Valbona Sulcaj, presented the paper "Overseeing the External Audit Function: Evidence from Recent Audit Committee Voluntary Disclosures" (with Brian Bratten and Monika Causholli) at the Temple Accounting 100th Anniversary Conference in Philadelphia, PA.
Meng Huang presented the paper “Restatement, Disaggregation Quality and Market Reaction”, coauthored with Nicole Jenkins, Le Luo and Hong Xie, at the Temple Accounting 100th Anniversary Conference at Philadelphia, PA on August 10, 2018. This paper shows that restatement firms present their financial report with fewer details than their peer firms in the misstatement years, and increasing the disaggregation level in the financial report is a potential remedial tool that restatement firms can use after they announce the restatements.
On August 7th, VASOA PhD student, Valbona Sulcaj, presented the paper "Overseeing the External Audit Function: Evidence from Recent Audit Committee Voluntary Disclosures" (with Brian Bratten and Monika Causholli) at the AAA 2018 Annual Meeting in Washington DC.
Michael Chuancai Zhang recently presented his paper titled “The Effect of Management Language Cohesion on Information Asymmetry and the Cost of Equity Capital” co-authored with Dan Stone and Hong Xie, and discussed a paper titled “Seeing is Believing? Perceived Executive Facial Trustworthiness, Auditor Tenure, and Audit Fees” at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on August 7, 2018.
Bradley Hardy, a 2011 Ph.D. in Economics for UK, and currently an Associate Professor at American University won the 2017 Best Article award from Contemporary Economic Policy, for his article, "Income Instability and the Response of the Safety Net."
