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Overview

Martin Walker is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the broader field of Business, Management, and Accounting, with a specific focus on Accounting, Finance, and related subfields.

Their recent research contributions include works published between 2020 and 2022 in various academic venues. Notable papers authored or co-authored by Martin Walker are:

  • Who's the Fairest of Them All? A Comparison of Methods for Classifying Tone and Causal Reasoning in Earnings-related Management Discourse, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Narrative disclosure quality and the timeliness of goodwill impairments, 2021, The British Accounting Review
  • Do corporate press releases drive media coverage?, 2020, The British Accounting Review
  • Understanding How the Effects of Conditional Conservatism Measurement Bias Vary with the Research Context, 2022, European Accounting Review
  • Can We Harness the Business Paradigm of Value Creation to Support Quality Improvement Projects?, 2020, Obstetrics and Gynecology

Martin Walker's work covers a range of topics including auditing, earnings management, and governance, as well as financial markets and investment strategies. Their research also extends to corporate finance and governance, accounting and organizational management, geophysical methods and applications, structural health monitoring techniques, and seismic performance and analysis.

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues, most notably:

  • The British Accounting Review
  • European Accounting Review
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Revista Psicólogos

Martin Walker has collaborated with a number of co-authors, including Juan Carlos Jaramillo, George Emmanuel Iatridis, Kostas Pappas, Nikolaos Tsileponis, and Konstantinos Stathopoulos. These collaborations reflect a network across different aspects of accounting, finance, and management disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Incentives or Standards: What Determines Accounting Quality Changes around IFRS Adoption?

    Hans B. Christensen;Edward Lee;Martin Walker;Cheng Zeng

  • International Differences in the Timeliness, Conservatism, and Classification of Earnings

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  • What Valuation Models Do Analysts Use

    Efthimios G. Demirakos;Norman C. Strong;Martin Walker

  • Cross-sectional variation in the economic consequences of international accounting harmonization: The case of mandatory IFRS adoption in the UK ☆

    Hans B. Christensen;Edward Lee;Martin Walker

  • International Differences in the Timeliness, Conservatism and Classification of Earnings

    Peter F. Pope;Peter F. Pope;Martin Walker

  • Undertaking large-scale disclosure studies when AIMR-FAF ratings are not available: the case of prices leading earnings

    Khaled Hussainey;Thomas Schleicher;Martin Walker

  • Do Chinese state subsidies affect voluntary corporate social responsibility disclosure

    Edward Lee;Martin Walker;Cheng (Colin) Zeng

  • Do Chinese government subsidies affect firm value

    Edward Lee;Martin Walker;Cheng Zeng

  • How far can we trust earnings numbers? What research tells us about earnings management

    Martin Walker

  • The effects of voluntary disclosure and dividend propensity on prices leading earnings

    Khaled Hussainey;Martin Walker

  • Earnings management or forecast guidance to meet analyst expectations

    Vasiliki E. Athanasakou;Norman C. Strong;Martin Walker

  • Bias in the tone of forward‐looking narratives

    Thomas Schleicher;Martin Walker

  • Do IFRS Reconciliations Convey Information? The Effect of Debt Contracting

    Hans B. Christensen;Edward Lee;Martin Walker

  • Target price accuracy:international evidence

    Pawel Bilinski;Danielle Lyssimachou;Martin Walker

  • The Market Reward for Achieving Analyst Earnings Expectations: Does Managing Expectations or Earnings Matter?

    Vasiliki E. Athanasakou;Norman C Strong;Martin Walker

  • IFRS adoption in Europe and investment-cash flow sensitivity: outsider versus insider economies

    Thomas Schleicher;Ahmed Tahoun;Martin Walker

  • Residual income past and future

    Michael Bromwich;M. Walker

  • Information and capital markets

    Norman Strong;Martin Walker

  • Disagreement over the persistence of earnings components: Evidence on the properties of management-specific adjustments to GAAP earnings

    Young Soo Choi;Stephen Lin;Martin Walker;Steven Young

  • Does Valuation Model Choice Affect Target Price Accuracy

    Efthimios G. Demirakos;Norman C. Strong;Martin Walker

  • The implications of research on accounting conservatism for accounting standard setting

    Araceli Mora;Martin Walker

  • Asset revaluations, future firm performance and firm-level corporate governance arrangements: New evidence from Brazil

    Alexsandro Broedel Lopes;Martin Walker

  • Incentives or Standards: What Determines Accounting Quality Changes Around IFRS Adoption?

    Hans B. Christensen;Edward Lee;Martin Walker;Cheng Zeng

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Rayson
Paul Rayson Lancaster University
Peter F. Pope
Peter F. Pope Bocconi University
James A. Ohlson
James A. Ohlson Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Khaled Hussainey
Khaled Hussainey Bangor University
Douglas J. Cumming
Douglas J. Cumming Stevens Institute of Technology
Andrew W. Moore
Andrew W. Moore Carnegie Mellon University
Christian Leuz
Christian Leuz University of Chicago

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