Accounting Faculty Research

  • November 19, 2024

    The 2008 financial crisis cast a pall of pessimism over veteran CEOs that took three years to lift. David Koo, assistant professor of accounting, has found that memories of past recessions, triggered by recent ones, can weigh on chief executives’ decisions, literally for years.

  • August 22, 2024

    Artificial intelligence can perform peer firm selection—a key task for investors—at least as accurately as well-established alternative algorithms and human experts, according to research by Costello profs Long Chen and Yi Cao.

  • August 6, 2024

    The economic data on climate and business outcomes paints a picture of profound disruption beneath a placid-seeming surface.

  • January 22, 2024

    To stay competitive in the war for talent, tech companies must weigh secrecy against specificity when crafting job ads. Are they disclosing too much?

  • January 8, 2024

    A Mason professor unpacks the complex, nuanced impact of the “revolving door” between industry and regulators in the accounting world.

  • August 23, 2023

    Steve Maex, an assistant professor of accounting at George Mason University School of Business, recently received the American Accounting Association (AAA)’s Outstanding International Accounting Dissertation Award.

  • May 10, 2023

    A Mason professor is the sole academic working with the U.S. government in an unprecedented effort to measure environmental-economic activity.

  • March 24, 2023

    Financially troubled U.S. hospitals are petitioning for more support from the federal government, but handouts won’t fix the underlying problem.

  • January 31, 2023

    Research by Mason Accounting Professor Bret Johnson, a former SEC staff accountant and academic fellow, shows how seemingly mundane intra-agency policies can have unintended effects that benefit Wall Street over Main Street.

  • September 28, 2022

    As Jenelle Conaway, assistant professor of accounting at George Mason University School of Business, says, “Being able to compare companies more easily makes for more efficient investment choices. And that scales from the individual level up to banks choosing who they lend to, and companies choosing who they want to merge with and acquire.” Her recent research finds that comparability trends have grown complicated.