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55
Citations
43598
World Ranking
1025
National Ranking
635

Overview

Richard G. Sloan is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these areas, the scientist has contributed extensively to subfields such as Accounting, Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their work addresses key topics including Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance; Financial Markets and Investment Strategies; Corporate Finance and Governance; Financial Reporting and Valuation Research; Stock Market Forecasting Methods; Market Dynamics and Volatility; as well as Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems.

Richard G. Sloan has published frequently in several notable venues. These include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (6 publications)
  • Journal of Accounting and Economics (4 publications)
  • Review of Accounting Studies (2 publications)
  • The Accounting Review (2 publications)
  • Journal of Accounting Research (1 publication)

Four recent papers exemplify the focus and scope of their research:

  • "Implied Equity Duration: A Measure of Pandemic Shutdown Risk," 2021, Journal of Accounting Research
  • "Implied Equity Duration: A Measure of Pandemic Shut-Down Risk," 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "When does forecasting GAAP earnings entail unreasonable effort?," 2021, Journal of Accounting and Economics
  • "Construct Validity in Accruals Quality Research," 2021, The Accounting Review
  • "Valuation Uncertainty and Short-Sales Constraints: Evidence from the IPO Aftermarket," 2021, Management Science

The scientist has collaborated with several frequent coauthors, including Ryan Erhard, Annika Yu Wang, Patricia Dechow, Henry Laurion, and Matthew Shaffer. These collaborations range in frequency, with the highest being four joint works with Ryan Erhard.

Best Publications

  • DETECTING EARNINGS MANAGEMENT

    P Dechow;R Sloan;A P Sweeney

  • Causes and Consequences of Earnings Manipulation: An Analysis of Firms Subject to Enforcement Actions by the SEC*

    Patricia M. Dechow;Richard G. Sloan;Amy P. Sweeney

  • Do Stock Prices Fully Reflect Information in Accruals and Cash flows about Future Earnings

    Richard G. Sloan

  • Detecting Earnings Management

    Patricia M. Dechow;Richard G. Sloan;Amy P. Hutton

  • Executive incentives and the horizon problem: An empirical investigation

    Patricia M. Dechow;Richard G. Sloan

  • Earnings Surprises, Growth Expectations, and Stock Returns or Don't Let an Earnings Torpedo Sink Your Portfolio

    Douglas J. Skinner;Richard G. Sloan

  • Accrual reliability, earnings persistence and stock prices ☆

    Scott A. Richardson;Richard G. Sloan;Mark T. Soliman;İrem Tuna

  • Annual bonus schemes and the manipulation of earnings

    Robert W. Holthausen;David F. Larcker;Richard G. Sloan

  • Another Look at the Cross-section of Expected Stock Returns

    S. P. Kothari;Jay Shanken;Richard G. Sloan

  • Predicting Material Accounting Misstatements*: Predicting Material Accounting Misstatements

    Patricia M. Dechow;Weili Ge;Chad R. Larson;Richard G. Sloan

  • An empirical assessment of the residual income valuation model

    Patricia M. Dechow;Amy P. Hutton;Richard G. Sloan

  • Short-sellers, fundamental analysis and stock returns *

    Patricia M. Dechow;Amy P. Hutton;Lisa Meulbroek;Richard G. Sloan

  • Accounting earnings and top executive compensation

    Richard Geoffrey Sloan

  • Do Analysts and Auditors Use Information in Accruals

    Mark T. Bradshaw;Scott A. Richardson;Richard G. Sloan

  • GAAP versus The Street: An Empirical Assessment of Two Alternative Definitions of Earnings

    Mark T. Bradshaw;Richard G. Sloan

  • Earnings Surprises, Growth Expectations, and Stock Returns: Don't Let an Earnings Torpedo Sink Your Portfolio

    Douglas J. Skinner;Richard G. Sloan

  • The relation between corporate financing activities, analysts’ forecasts and stock returns

    Mark T. Bradshaw;Scott A. Richardson;Richard G. Sloan

  • Detecting Earnings Management: A New Approach

    Patricia M. Dechow;Amy P. Hutton;Jung Hoon Kim;Richard G. Sloan

  • The Relation between Analysts' Forecasts of Long‐Term Earnings Growth and Stock Price Performance Following Equity Offerings*

    Patricia M. Dechow;Amy P. Hutton;Richard G. Sloan

  • Lack of timeliness and noise as explanations for the low contemporaneuos return-earnings association

    Daniel W. Collins;S.P. Kothari;Jay Shanken;Richard G. Sloan

  • Do Stock Prices Fully Reflect Information in Accruals and Cash Flows About Future Earnings

    Richard G. Sloan

  • Causes and Consequences of Earnings Manipulation: An Analysis of Firms Subject to Enforcement Actions by the Sec

    Patricia M. Dechow;Richard G. Sloan;Amy P. Hutton

  • Information in prices about future earnings

    S.P Kothari;Richard G Sloan

  • The Persistence and Pricing of the Cash Component of Earnings

    Patricia M. Dechow;Scott A. Richardson;Richard G. Sloan

  • Accrual Reliability, Earnings Persistence and Stock Prices

    Scott A. Richardson;Richard G. Sloan;Mark T. Soliman;A. Irem Tuna

Frequent Co-Authors

Patricia M. Dechow
Patricia M. Dechow University of Southern California
Scott A. Richardson
Scott A. Richardson London Business School
Mark Thomas Bradshaw
Mark Thomas Bradshaw Boston College
Jay Shanken
Jay Shanken Emory University
David F. Larcker
David F. Larcker Stanford University
Jonathan M. Karpoff
Jonathan M. Karpoff University of Washington
Daniel W. Collins
Daniel W. Collins University of Iowa
Douglas J. Skinner
Douglas J. Skinner University of Chicago
Wayne R. Guay
Wayne R. Guay University of Pennsylvania

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