Tyler Kleppe's paper, "PCAOB Inspections, Knowledge Diffusion, and Corporate Tax Planning Effectiveness" was recently accepted for presentation at multiple highly-competitive research conferences, including the 2022 Deloitte/University of Kansas Auditing Symposium and the 12th EIASM Conference on Current Research in
Tyler Kleppe, Assistant Professor, was recently named to the Editorial Board of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (AJPT). The journal is published by the American Accounting Association and contributes to improving the practice and theory of auditing.
Sung-Yuan (Mark) Cheng and Sohee Kim both presented papers at the 2022 Annual Meeting of American Accounting Association in San Diego, California.
Jim Ziliak, Chris Bollinger, and Gatton Ph.D alum, Charles Hokayem, had their paper entitled "Trends in Earnings Volatility using Linked Administrative and Survey Data" accepted for publication at the
Ben Commerford, Arthur Andersen Associate Professor of Accounting, received The Accounting Review (TAR) Outstanding Reviewer Award at the 2022 American Accounting Association (AAA) annual meeting.
Assistant Marketing Professor, Alexis Allen, along with researchers from the University of New Hampshire, Texas A&M University, and Florida State University published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines the effect among salespeople of three negative personality traits – Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy.
Ben Commerford's paper, "Management’s Reporting Motives and the Leniency of Auditors’ Internal Control Evaluations: The Role of Organizational Identification and Auditor-type," has been accepted for publication in The Accounting Review. The paper is coauthored with
Will Gerken's "The Value of Differing Points of View: Evidence from Financial Analysts’ Geographic Diversity," was just accepted in The Review Of Financial Studies. The paper is co-authored with Gatton Ph.D alum, Marc Painter.
Economic researchers are long-standing users of federal government data in a variety of research settings. Chris Bollinger, Gatton Endowed Professor of Economics and Executive Director of the Kentucky Research Data Center, highlights an important problem in his research: Balancing Privacy and Usability.
The Department of Management at the Gatton College of Business and Economics earned an overall national rank of 36th in the
