Avishek Bhandari (Avi) is an assistant professor in the Department of Accounting at the UW-Whitewater. He has taught Introduction to Financial Accounting, Introduction to Managerial Accounting and Auditing to undergraduate students; Analytics in Accounting to Master’s students; and research methodology and accounting seminar courses to doctorate students. He has chaired and supervised several doctoral students’ dissertations in a wide range of accounting topics. His research has been published in Journal of Corporate Finance (JCF), Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory (AJPT), Accounting Horizons (AH), Journal of Accounting & Public Policy (JAPP), Accounting & Finance (AF), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (RQFA), and Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting (AQAFA). He has presented at multiple conferences including the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Midyear Meeting and the Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting. In 2020, his two research papers were selected as the semifinalist for the "Best Paper Award" at the 2020 Financial Management Association (FMA) Conference and the 2020 Academy of Economics and Finance (AEF) Conference respectively. Avi’s research interests include auditing, financial reporting, corporate social responsibility, investments, insider trading, credit ratings and executive compensation. Avi earned a PhD, an MSA and an MBA degrees from Florida Atlantic University, Kent State University and Bowling Green State University.
Financial Misconduct Spillover: Unethical Institutional Ownership and Aggressive Financial Reporting
Babak Mammadov and Blerina Bela Zykaj
Religious Belief as Compensatory Control: Religiosity and Insider-trading Activity
Md Nazmul Hasan Bhuyan
Financial Misconduct Spillover: Unethical Institutional Ownership and Aggressive Financial Reporting
Babak Mammadov and Blerina Bela Zykaj
Financial Misconduct Spillover: Unethical Institutional Ownership and Aggressive Financial Reporting
Babak Mammadov and Blerina Bela Zykaj
Financial Misconduct Spillover: Unethical Institutional Ownership and Aggressive Financial Reporting
Babak Mammadov and Blerina Bela Zykaj
Stressed About Money: The Effect of Employee Financial Pressure on Financial Reporting Outcomes
Babak Mammadov
Financial Misconduct Spillover: Unethical Institutional Ownership and Aggressive Financial Reporting
Babak Mammadov and Blerina Bela Zykaj
CEO Political Ideologies and Auditor-Client Contracting
Joanna Golden and Maya Thevenot
CEO Political Preference and Credit Ratings
Joanna Golden
CEO Political Ideologies and Auditor-Client Contracting
Joanna Golden and Maya Thevenot
Stressed About Money: The Effect of Employee Financial Pressure on Financial Reporting Outcomes
Babak Mammadov
Diffusion of Innovations and Internal Controls
Hamid Vakilzadeh
The Relationship between Stock Repurchase Completion Rates, Firm Reputation and Financial Reporting Quality: A Commitment-Trust Theory Perspective
Joanna Golden, Kenton Walker and Joseph Zhang
Association of Related Party Transactions with Sensitivity of Investments and External Financing
Mark Kohlbeck and Brian Mayhew
We investigate the association of related party transactions (RPTs) classified as tone and business with a firm’s capital allocation efficiency. We expect that opportunistic RPTs captured by our tone classification are associated with inefficiencies in c...
Association of Related Party Transactions with Sensitivity of Investments and External Financing
Mark Kohlbeck and Brian Mayhew
We investigate the association of related party transactions (RPTs) classified as tone and business with a firm’s capital allocation efficiency. We expect that opportunistic RPTs captured by our tone classification are associated with inefficiencies in c...
Diffusion of Innovations and Internal Controls
Hamid Vakilzadeh
CEO Political Ideologies and Auditor-Client Contracting
Joanna Golden and Maya Thevenot
Association of Related Party Transactions with Sensitivity of Investments and External Financing
Mark Kohlbeck and Brian Mayhew
We investigate the association of related party transactions (RPTs) classified as tone and business with a firm’s capital allocation efficiency. We expect that opportunistic RPTs captured by our tone classification are associated with inefficiencies in c...
Corporate Culture and Financial Reporting Quality
Babak Mammadov, Maya Thevenot and Hamid Vakilzadeh
Corporate Culture and Financial Reporting Quality
Babak Mammadov, Maya Thevenot and Hamid Vakilzadeh
Corporate Culture and Financial Reporting Quality
Babak Mammadov, Maya Thevenot and Hamid Vakilzadeh
Firm Social Network, Information Transfer and Information Environment
I investigate whether a firm’s social network size (also known as social capital) impacts the quality of its information environment. The quality of firms’ information environments is important for the efficient allocation of resources within an economy. ...
Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities on Analysts’ Behavior
Mark Kohlbeck
We investigate whether or not a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities influence analysts’ behavior. CSR is concerned with the impact of corporations’ present actions on the ecosystems, societies, and environments of the future and includ...
Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics
Maya Thevenot ; Babak Mammadov
Debt-like compensation, referred to as inside debt, is prevalent in US firms and affects firm operating, investing and financial reporting activities. The amount of inside debt can be used to extract information that benefits analyst forecasting activitie...
Corporate Social Responsibility and Capital Allocation Efficiency
David Javakhadze
We investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm-level capital allocation efficiency. Using seminal investment-Q framework, we provide evidence that CSR distorts investment sensitivity to Q. We further determine that ...
Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities on Analysts’ Behavior
Mark Kohlbeck
We investigate whether or not a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities influence analysts’ behavior. CSR is concerned with the impact of corporations’ present actions on the ecosystems, societies, and environments of the future and includ...
Corporate Culture and Financial Reporting Quality
Babak Mammadov, Maya Thevenot and Hamid Vakilzadeh
Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics
Maya Thevenot ; Babak Mammadov
Debt-like compensation, referred to as inside debt, is prevalent in US firms and affects firm operating, investing and financial reporting activities. The amount of inside debt can be used to extract information that benefits analyst forecasting activitie...
Does CEO network size improve a firm’s information environment?
I examine whether the CEO network size is associated with firm’s information environment. Formed through current employment (CE), prior employment (PE), education (Ed), and other activities (OA), these connections facilitate certain value-creating financi...
Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics
Maya Thevenot ; Babak Mammadov
Debt-like compensation, referred to as inside debt, is prevalent in US firms and affects firm operating, investing and financial reporting activities. The amount of inside debt can be used to extract information that benefits analyst forecasting activitie...
Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics
Maya Thevenot ; Babak Mammadov
Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics
Maya Thevenot ; Babak Mammadov
Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities on Analysts’ Behavior
Dr. Mark Kohlbeck
We investigate whether or not a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities influence analysts’ behavior. CSR is concerned with the impact of corporations’ present actions on the ecosystems, societies, and environments of the future and includ...
Stressed About Money: The Effect of Employee Financial Pressure on Financial Reporting Outcomes
Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Community Social Capital, Corporate Governance and Capital Allocation Efficiency
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Association of Related Party Transactions with Sensitivity of Investments and External Financing
Journal of Corporate Finance
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Vol. 72 Pg. 102146
February 2022
The relationship between stock repurchase completion rates, firm reputation and financial reporting quality: a commitment-trust theory perspective
Accounting & Finance
Journal Article, Academic Journal
November 2021
CEO Political Preference and Credit Ratings
Journal of Corporate Finance
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Vol. 68 Pg. 101909
June 2021
Corporate Culture and Financial Reporting Quality
Accounting Horizons
Journal Article, Academic Journal
June 2021
CEO Political Ideologies and Auditor-Client Contracting
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
Journal Article, Academic Journal
June 2020
Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities on Analysts’ Behavior
Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Iss. 16 Pg. 73-116
December 2018
Impact of Executive Inside Debt on Sell-Side Financial Analysts' Forecast Characteristics
Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Vol. 51 Iss. 2 Pg. 283-315
August 2018
It Is Not Only What You Know, It Is Also Who You Know: CEO Network Connections, Audit Quality and Financial Reporting Quality
Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Vol. 37 Iss. 2 Pg. 27-50
May 2018
Corporate Social Responsibility and Capital Allocation Efficiency
Journal of Corporate Finance
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Vol. 43 Pg. 354-377
April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2017
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