Volkan Muslu

Assistant Professor of Accounting

University of Texas at Dallas

Papers

[1] Market Demand for Conservative Analysts with Artur Hugon

Journal of Accounting and Economics 50 (2010), 42-57.

 

[2] Shareholder Activism and CEO Pay with Yonca Ertimur and Fabrizio Ferri

Review of Financial Studies 24 (2011), 535-592.

 

[3] Why are Recommendations Optimistic? Evidence from Analysts' Coverage Initiations with Yonca Ertimur and Frank Zhang

Review of Accounting Studies 16 (2011), 679-718.

 

[4] Textual Risk Disclosures and Investors' Risk Perceptions with Todd Kravet

Accepted at Review of Accounting Studies with minor revisions

 

[5] Executive directors, pay disclosures and incentive compensation in large European companies

Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance 25 (2010), 569-605.

 

[6] Book review: 'The timing of income recognition in tax law and the time value of money'

European Accounting Review 20 (2011), 594-597.

 

[7] Sell-Side Analyst Research and Stock Comovement with Michael Rebello and Yexiao Xu

Invited for resubmission at Journal of Accounting Research.

 

[8] How accurately do investors estimate the persistence of accruals?

Invited for resubmission at European Accounting Review.

 

[9] Firm's Information Environment and Forward-Looking Disclosures in the MD&A with Suresh Radhakrishnan, K.R. Subramanyam, and Dongkuk Lim

Invited for resubmission at Management Science.

 

[10] Why do analysts follow past returns? with Yanfeng Xue

 

[11] Implications of Estimation Error in Option Grants for Evaluating CEO Pay with Mark Anderson

 

[12] Credit Rating Agency and Equity Analysts' Adjustments to GAAP Earnings with George Batta

 

[13] Analyst Tipping: Additional Evidence with Stanimir Markov and Musa Subasi

 

 

Teaching

Introduction to Financial Accounting (MIT, UT Dallas)

Intermediate Financial Accounting (UT Dallas)

Last update: April 2012

 

 

 

 

Research Interests

Equity Analysts, Company Disclosures,

CEO Compensation, Shareholder Activism

 

Education

Ph.D., MIT Sloan School of Management, 2005.

MBA, Koc University, Turkey, 1998.

B.S. Electrical Engineering, Bilkent University, Turkey, 1996.

 

Contact

vmuslu@utdallas.edu

Phone: (972) 883 2492

 

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