Publications

Income Shifting as an Aspect of Tax Avoidance: Evidence from U.S. Multinational Corporations, with C. Kirby, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, 2018, 21(2).

Whistleblower Laws and Corporate Fraud: Evidence from the United States, with E. Lambert, Accounting Forum, 2017, 41, 289-299 (with undergraduate student).

The Impact of Class Scheduling on Academic Performance in Quantitative and Qualitative Business Disciplines, with B. Pierce, Global Perspectives on Accounting Education, 2017, 14, 44-66.

Capital Expenditures and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Analysis of Stock Returns, with C. Kirby, Accounting & Finance, 2017, 57(4), 1019-1042.

Measuring Public Corruption in the United States: Evidence from Administrative Records of Federal Prosecutions, with J. Milyo, Public Integrity, 2016, 18, 127-148.

Accounting Ratios and the Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 2014, 41(9-10), 1157-1192.

Sunshine as Disinfectant: The Effect of State Freedom of Information Act Laws on Public Corruption, with P. Warren, Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 115, 18-36.

Corruption and the Composition of Public Spending in the United States, Public Finance Review, 2014, 42(6), 745-773.

Discrete Stochastic Autoregressive Volatility, with C. Kirby, Journal of Banking and Finance, 2014, 43, 160-178.

Expected Corruption and Business Formation, with N. Campbell, Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2014, 3(2), 292-305.

Regime-switching Factor Models in which the Number of Factors Defines the Regime, with C. Kirby, Economics Letters, 2011, 112(2), 198-201.

Judicial Checks on Corruption in the United States, Economics of Governance, 2009, 10(4), 375-401.

Book Chapters

Judicial Checks on Corruption, in Edward J. Lopez (Ed.), The Pursuit of Justice: Law and Economics of Legal Institutions, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.