Coles Research Highlights

This webpage is designed to share research accomplishments by Coles College faculty during the academic year. This includes Coles College of Business annual research publication -- “Coles Research Magazine."

Coles Research Magazine

This magazine includes brief summaries of the outstanding research projects (both published and ongoing) by Coles College of Business research faculty. It also includes work they are involved with in their capacity as PhD student dissertation committee chairs and members.

 

Listed below are recipients of research awards instituted by Coles College such as the Distinguished Scholarship Award, Financial Times Top 50 Journal Publication Awards, and Working Paper Series recognitions, among others.

Distinguished Scholarship Award

Financial Times Top 50 Journal Publication Awards

  • for her paper “The Ironic Impact of Schadenfreude: When the Joy of Inflicting Pain Leads to Increased Prosocial Behavior,” published in Journal of Consumer Psychology.
  • for her paper “Sharing to Persuade: The Role of Donor- Versus Charity-Focused Word of Mouth,” published in Journal of Marketing Research.
  • for his paper “The Taguchi Approach to Large-Scale Experimental Designs: A Powerful and Efficient Tool for Advancing Marketing Theory and Practice,” published in Marketing Science.
  • for her paper “How Large Is the Pay Premium from Executive Incentive Compensation,” published in The Accounting Review.

Distinguished Journal Publication Award

  • for his paper “Conscious Empathic AI in Service,” published in Journal of Service Research.

Outstanding Practitioner Focused Research Award

  • for his paper “The Fraud Prevention Pyramid,” published in Strategic Finance.

Community Engagement Award

  • for his work “Leadership through Service - Growing the Internal Audit Profession by Bridging Education and Practice.”

Competitive Grant Award

  • Aaron French for the CPRS-Inc Grant project “Analysis of Duplicate/Erroneous Transactions & Related Identification Techniques.”

Summer Research Fellowship

  • for the project “Investigating Information Security Policy Noncompliance as a Local Phenomenon.”
  • for the project “Is the Impact of High-Frequency Trading on Market Quality around FOMC Announcements Affected by Uncertainty?”
  • for the project “Financial Reporting Alternatives for Stock Repurchases and Their Effects on Stock Repurchase Decisions.”

Coles Working Paper Series

  • Aaron French for the working paper “A Framework for the Blockchain Ecosystem for Smart Tourism.”
    , Bryan Brockbank, , and Wayne B. Thomas for their working paper “The Power of Accounting: Capitalization of Cloud Computing for Utilities.”
  • , , , and for their working paper “Do You Believe In Second Chances?”
  • and Hong Qian for their working paper “Registered Direct Offerings and Confidentially Marketed Public Offerings.”
  • for the working paper “Composite Quantile Regression for Alpha Estimation.”

Coles Working Paper Series Best Reviewer Award

  • Ace Beorchia

 

 

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