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Overview

Jerold L. Zimmerman is affiliated with the University of Rochester in the United States. Their academic work primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Social Sciences. Within these fields, their research focuses on several subfields including Accounting, Management Information Systems, Demography, Safety Research, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics addressed in Zimmerman's research encompass:

  • Accounting and Organizational Management
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Accounting Theory and Financial Reporting
  • Economic Theory and Institutions

Zimmerman has published in a variety of academic venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Journal of applied corporate finance
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Review of Economics and Finance
  • Journal of Governmental & Nonprofit Accounting
  • Journal of Accounting and Economics

Some notable papers authored or coauthored by Zimmerman include:

  • The Economics of Organizational Architecture, 2020, Journal of applied corporate finance
  • The Forensics of the American Mafia, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Transfer Pricing and the Control of Internal Corporate Transactions, 2020, Journal of applied corporate finance
  • Using Organizational Architecture to Lead Change, 2020, Journal of applied corporate finance
  • The Forensics of the American Mafia, 2020, Review of Economics and Finance

Frequent collaborators in their research activities include James A. Brickley, Clifford Smith, Daniel Patrick Forrester, Janice Willett, and Clifford W. Smith. James A. Brickley appears as a coauthor most often, contributing to multiple publications with Zimmerman.

Best Publications

  • Positive Accounting Theory

    Ross L. Watts;Jerold L. Zimmerman

  • Towards A Positive Theory of the Determination of Accounting Standards

    Ross L. Watts;Jerold L. Zimmerman

  • Positive Accounting Theory: A Ten Year Perspective

    Ross L. Watts;Jerold L. Zimmerman

  • AGENCY PROBLEMS, AUDITING, AND THE THEORY OF THE FIRM: SOME EVIDENCE*

    Ross L. Watts;Jerold L. Zimmerman

  • Taxes and firm size

    Jerold L. Zimmerman

  • Financial performance surrounding CEO turnover

    Kevin J Murphy;Jerold L Zimmerman

  • Accounting for Decision Making and Control

    Jerold L. Zimmerman

  • Price and return models

    S.P. Kothari;Jerold L. Zimmerman

  • Managerial Economics and Organizational Architecture

    James A. Brickley;Clifford W. Smith;Jerold L. Zimmerman

  • The demand for and supply of accounting theories : the market for excuses

    Ross L. Watts;Jerold L. Zimmerman

  • Voluntary Corporate Disclosure: The Case of Interim Reporting

    Richard W. Leftwich;Ross L. Watts;Jerold L. ZIMMERMANtt

  • The Municipal Accounting Maze: An Analysis of Political Incentives

    Jerold L. Zimmerman

  • Efficient vs. Opportunistic Choice of Accounting Procedures: Corporate Control Contests

    Andrew Christie;Jerold Zimmerman

  • Conjectures regarding empirical managerial accounting research

    Jerold L. Zimmerman

  • Asymmetric sensitivity of CEO cash compensation to stock returns

    Andrew J. Leone;Joanna Shuang Wu;Jerold L. Zimmerman

  • Corporate governance myths: Comments on Armstrong, Guay, and Weber

    James A. Brickley;Jerold L. Zimmerman

  • The joint effects of materiality thresholds and voluntary disclosure incentives on firms’ disclosure decisions

    Shane Heitzman;Charles Wasley;Jerold Zimmerman

  • Business ethics and organizational architecture

    James A Brickley;Clifford W Smith;Jerold L Zimmerman

  • The Markets for Independence and Independent Auditors

    Ross Watts;Jerold Zimmerman

  • Unintended Consequences of Granting Small Firms Exemptions from Securities Regulation: Evidence from the Sarbanes‐Oxley Act

    Feng Gao;Joanna Shuang Wu;Jerold Zimmerman

  • Depreciation-policy changes: tax, earnings management, and investment opportunity incentives

    A.Scott Keating;Jerold L. Zimmerman

  • Idiosyncratic Shocks to Firm Underlying Economics and Abnormal Accruals

    Edward L. Owens;Joanna Shuang Wu;Jerold Zimmerman

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Brickley
James A. Brickley University of Rochester
Clifford W. Smith
Clifford W. Smith University of Rochester
Ray Ball
Ray Ball University of Chicago
Michael C. Jensen
Michael C. Jensen Harvard University
Joel S. Demski
Joel S. Demski University of Florida
Linda DeAngelo
Linda DeAngelo University of Southern California
Harry DeAngelo
Harry DeAngelo University of Southern California

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