Professor Mark Wilson
Areas of expertise
- Financial Accounting 150103
- Economic History 140203
- Sustainability Accounting And Reporting 150106
- Corporate Governance And Stakeholder Engagement 150303
- Accounting Theory And Standards 150101
- Financial Economics 140207
Research interests
Accounting and Capital Markets; Accounting and Financial Analysts; Earnings Management; Business History; Economics of Contracting; Financial History of the Brewing Industry; Economics of Franchising.
Biography
Mark Wilson is the Deputy Director (Research) in the Research School of Accounting at the ANU. His research interests include accounting, economic and business history, earnings quality, the response of markets and securities analysts to financial reporting information and transaction cost economics.
Mark is an Editor (Financial Accounting) of Accounting and Finance, and Associate Editor (Audit) of the Australian Journal of Management. He has published in leading journals, including Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Accounting and Business Research, Accounting and Finance, the Journal of Business Ethics, the Journal of Management Information Systems and Abacus. Mark's PhD thesis was awarded the SJ Butlin Prize for the best dissertation completed in Australia or New Zealand between 2006-08 in the area of Economic history. Mark is an active researcher and supervisor at the Doctoral and Hons. levels, and was a member of the AFAANZ 2013 and 2014 Technical Committee (Financial Accounting).
Publications
- Zhu, Z, Wang, K & Wilson, M 2022, 'The Effect of Conditional Management Earnings Forecast Mandates on Voluntary Disclosure and Analyst Forecast Properties', Abacus, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 479-522.
- Tseng, Y & Wilson, M 2020, 'Changes in Recommendation Rating Systems, Analyst Optimism, and Investor Response', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 166, pp. 369-401.
- Seve, F & Wilson, M 2019, 'Direct and substitution effects of regulations impacting the scope for classification shifting', Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 171-198.
- Zhang, L & Wilson, M 2018, 'Accruals Quality, Stock Return Seasonality and the Cost of Equity Capital: International Evidence', Contemporary Accounting Research 35: 1067-1101.
- Hossain, S .,Monroe, G, Wilson, M, et al 2016, 'The Effect of Networked Clients' Economic Importance on Audit Quality', Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Vol. 35 No.4. pp. 79-103.
- Wu, Y & Wilson, M 2016, 'Audit Quality and Analyst Forecast Accuracy: The Impact of Forecast Horizon and Other Modeling Choices', Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 167-185pp.
- Zhang, L & Wilson, M 2018, 'Does the accruals quality premium arise from information risk?', Accounting and Finance 58: 599-632
- Wilson, M & Shailer, G 2015, 'Information Asymmetry and Dual Distribution in Franchise Networks', Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, vol. 42, no. 9-10, pp. 1121-1153.
- Goode, S., Shailer, G., Wilson, M. et al. 2014, 'Gifting and Status in Virtual Worlds', Journal of Management Information Systems 31(2): 171-210.
- Lu, L., Shailer, G and M. Wilson, 2016, 'Corporate Political Donations: Influences from Directors' Networks', Journal of Business Ethics, 135(3): 461-481.
- Bachoo, K, Tan, R & Wilson, M 2013, 'Firm Value and the Quality of Sustainability Reporting in Australia', Australian Accounting Review, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 67-87.
- Wilson, M & Wu, Y 2011, 'Do Publicly Signalled Earnings Management Incentives Affect Analyst Forecast Accuracy?', Abacus, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 315-342.
- Wilson, M 2011, 'Earnings Management in Australian Corporations', Australian Accounting Review, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 205-221.
- Wilson, M & Wang, L 2010, 'Earnings management following chief executive officer changes: the effect of contemporaneous chairperson and chief financial officer appointments', Accounting and Finance, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 447-480.
- Wilson, M & Shailer, G 2007, 'Accounting Manipulations and Political Costs: Tooth & Co. Ltd 1910-65', Accounting and Business Research vol. 37 no. 4, pp. 247-265.
- Wilson, M & Shailer, G 2004, 'The Term Structure of Discount Rates and Capital Budgeting Practice', Journal of Applied Management Accounting Research, vol. 2, pp. 29-40.
- Shailer, G & Wilson, M 2003, 'A Revised Lesson for Accounting Measurement from Transaction Cost Economics', Australian Accounting Review, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 66-72.
- Wilson, M 2003, 'The Coase Theorem, Opportunity Cost and Legal Liability for Damage', Canberra Law Review, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 75 - 87.
- Shailer, G & Wilson, M 2000, 'External Collateral and Accounting for Owner's Equity in Closely Held Corporations', Asian Review of Accounting, vol. 2, pp. 81-96.
Projects and Grants
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- Does earnings guidance affect stock market reactions to management cash flow forecasts?� (Secondary Investigator)