Selected Publications
Jennifer Francis
Senior Associate Dean of Faculty
Douglas and Josie Breeden Doctoral Professor of Accounting

Ph.D. Cornell University, 1987

"Voluntary Disclosure, Information Quality, and Costs of Capital," with Dhananjay Nanda and Per Olsson. Journal of Accounting Research (March 2008): 53-99.

"CEO Reputation and Reporting Quality," with Allen Huang, Shiva Rajgopal, and Amy Zhang. Contemporary Accounting Research 25, 1 (Spring 2008).

"Information Uncertainty and Post Earnings Announcement Drift," with Ryan LaFond, Per Olsson and Katherine Schipper. Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting 34 (3) (April/May 2007): 403-433.

“Re-examining the Effects of Regulation Fair Disclosure Using Foreign Listed Firms to Control for Concurrent Shocks,” with Dhananjay Nanda and Xin Wang. Journal of Accounting and Economics 41 (2006): 271-292.

"A Returns-Based Representation of Earnings Quality," with Frank Ecker, Irene Kim, Per Olsson, and Katherine Schipper. The Accounting Review 81, 4 (2006): 749-780.
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"A Re-examination of the Persistence of Accruals and Cash Flows," with Michael Smith. Journal of Accounting Research 48, 3 (June 2005): 413-451.

"Earnings and Dividend Informativeness When Cash Flow Rights are Separated from Voting Rights," Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 39, No. 2 (June 2005): 329-360.

"The Market Pricing of Accruals Quality," with Ryan LaFond, Per Olsson and Katherine Schipper. Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 39, No. 2 (June 2005): 295-327.

"Investor Learning About Analyst Predictive Ability," with Qi Chen and Wei Jiang. Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 39, No. 1 (February 2005): 3-24.

"Costs of Equity and Earnings Attributes," with Ryan LaFond, Per Olsson and Katherine Schipper. The Accounting Review, Vol. 79, No. 4 (October 2004): 967-1010.