Douglas Skinner
· Clinical Professor of FinanceUniversity of Chicago · Booth School of Business
Active 1989–2025
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Research topics
- Physics
- Pure mathematics
- Mathematical physics
- Mathematics
- Geometry
- Optics
- Quantum mechanics
- Combinatorics
- Theoretical physics
Selected publications
Journal of Accounting Research · 2015-02-24 · 505 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorABSTRACT Recent changes in technology and the media are causing significant changes in how capital markets assimilate and respond to information. We identify important themes in the disclosure literature and use this as a framework to discuss the conference papers that appear in this volume. These papers examine how managers’ disclosure practices are being affected by changes in technology, the media, and capital markets. While this work makes important progress, we discuss how continuing techno…
Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan
The Accounting Review · 2012-04-01 · 440 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingABSTRACT We study events surrounding ChuoAoyama's failed audit of Kanebo, a large Japanese cosmetics company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's largest audit firms. In May 2006, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) suspended ChuoAoyama for two months for its role in the Kanebo fraud. This unprecedented action followed a series of events that seriously damaged ChuoAoyama's reputation. We use these events to pr…
Journal of Financial Economics · 2015-08-14 · 348 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorCorrespondingThe role of the media in disseminating insider-trading news
Review of Accounting Studies · 2016-03-14 · 187 citations
articleCorrespondingSSRN Electronic Journal · 2015-01-01 · 143 citations
articleOpen accessSenior author
Frequent coauthors
- 74 shared
Nasser K. Altorki
Cornell University
- 66 shared
Alex G. Little
McMaster University
- 55 shared
Mark B. Orringer
- 39 shared
Mark K. Ferguson
University of Chicago
- 37 shared
Tom R. DeMeester
University of Southern California
- 35 shared
Joseph N. Cunningham
IIT@MIT
- 35 shared
Michelle Stanworth
- 35 shared
Kevin Bonnett
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