Peter D. Wysocki – Downloadable Research Papers and Citation Counts

 

Associate Professor of Accounting

MIT Sloan School of Management, E52-325

50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142-1347, USA

Tel: 617-253-6623    E-mail: wysockip@mit.edu   Website: http://mit.edu/wysockip/www

 

 

PUBLISHED PAPERS – DOWNLOADABLE PDF FILES

 

Discretionary Disclosure and Stock-based Incentives with Venky Nagar and Dhananjay Nanda. Journal of Accounting & Economics, Vol. 34, January 2003.

 

Earnings Management and Investor Protection: An International Comparisonwith Christian Leuz and Dhananjay Nanda. Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 69, September 2003. (Designated as a Journal of Financial Economics All Star Paper based on very high citation count).

-          This paper has been awarded a Journal of Financial Economics "ALL STAR PAPER". Click here for the list of JFE All Star Papers.

-          This paper is #65 on the list of the 300 most highly cited Finance articles published between 2000 and 2006. It is also the #7 most highly cited Finance article published in 2003. See the rankings of Finance papers in the survey article titled "What's New in Finance?" (published in European Financial Management).

 

Discussion of Ultimate Ownership, Income Management and Extra-Legal Institutions.” Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 42, May 2004.

 

 The Walkdown to Beatable Analyst Forecasts: The Roles of Equity Issuance and Insider Trading Incentives" with Scott Richardson and Siew Hong Teoh. Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 21, Winter 2004.

-          This paper is the seventh highest ranking paper from an accounting journal on the list of the 300 most highly cited Finance articles published between 2000 and 2006 (rank of #179). See the rankings of papers in the survey article titled "What's New in Finance?" (published in European Financial Management).

 

 Portfolio Preferences of Foreign Institutional Investorswith Reena Aggarwal and Leora Klapper. Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 29, December 2005.

 

 Expectations Management and Beatable Targets: How Do Analysts React to Explicit Earnings Guidance?with Julie Cotter and Irem Tuna.  Contemporary Accounting Research 23, Fall 2006.

 

        Discussion of IPO Failure Risk.” Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 45, May 2007.

 

Do Managers Withhold Bad News?” with SP Kothari and Susan Shu. Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming, March 2009.

 

 

WORKING PAPERS – DOWNLOADABLE PDF FILES

 

Pairs Trading and Accounting Informationwith George Papadakis. MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper, June 2008.

 

Economic Consequences of Financial Reporting and Disclosure Regulation: A Review and Suggestions for Future Researchwith Christian Leuz. MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper, April 2008.

 

 Assessing Earnings and Accruals Quality: U.S. and International Evidence.” MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper, January 2008.

 

Operating Risk, Information Risk, and Cost of Capitalwith Michelle Liu. MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper, July 2007.

 

(Non)Convergence in International Accrual Accounting: The Role of Institutional and Real Operating Effects with Peter Joos. MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper, May 2007.

 

 Accounting for Taste: Board Member Preferences and Corporate Policy Choiceswith Scott Richardson and Irem Tuna. MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper, December 2005.

 

RESEARCH REPORTS – DOWNLOADABLE PDF FILES

 

Capital Market Effects of Corporate Disclosures and Disclosure Regulationwith Christian Leuz. A research report to The Task Force to Modernize Securities Regulation in Canada, October 2006.

 

WORK  IN PROGRESS (Downloadable soon)

 

“Accounting Anomalies, Fundamental Analysis, and Returns to Investment Strategies” with Scott Richardson and Irem Tuna. Invited survey paper for 2009 Journal of Accounting and Economics Conference.

 

“Discussion of Audit Committee Compensation and the Demand for Monitoring of the Financial reporting Process.” 2008 Journal of Accounting and Economics Conference.

 

 

CITATION ANALYSIS (Updated August 2008)

 

 

Paper

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) Citation Count

 

Google Scholar

Citation Count

“Discretionary disclosure and stock-based incentives”

JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING & ECONOMICS 34: 1-3, p. 283-309, JANUARY 2003

 

13

59

“Earnings management and investor protection: an international comparison”

JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS 69: 3, p. 505-527,

SEPTEMBER 2003

 

106

525*

“The walk-down to beatable analyst forecasts: The role of equity issuance and insider trading incentives”

CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTING RESEARCH 21: 4, p. 885-924,

WINTER 2004

 

31

262**

“Discussion of ultimate ownership, income management, and legal and extra-legal institutions”

JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING RESEARCH   42: 2,  p. 463-474,

MAY 2004

 

4

5

“Portfolio preferences of foreign institutional investors”

JOURNAL OF BANKING & FINANCE 29: 12, p. 2919-2946,

DECEMBER 2005

 

5

80

“Expectations management and beatable targets: How do analysts react to explicit earnings guidance? “

CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTING RESEARCH 23: 3 , p. 593-624,

FALL 2006

 

3

45

“Discussion of IPO failure risk”

JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING RESEARCH 45: 2, p. 373-384,

MAY 2007

 

0

1

“Assessing earnings and accruals quality: U.S. and international evidence”

MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper

JANUARY 2008

 

0

33

“Do managers withhold bad news?”

MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper

MARCH 2008

 

0

48

TOTAL                                

162

1,058

 

* Includes SSRN citations of prior version titled: “Investor protection and earnings management.”
**Includes SSRN citations of prior version titled: “Tracking analysts’ forecasts over the annual earnings horizon.”