Douglas J Skinner

53 catalog papers. Identity-linked publications and additional name matches are distinguished below.

ORCID: 0000-0003-3414-3555

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Publications

• Why did the Big Four get so large? Evidence from Australia — Review of Accounting Studies 2025
• Agency cost of free cash flow, capital allocation, and payouts — Journal of Financial Economics 2025
• Corporate managers’ perspectives on forward-looking guidance: Survey evidence☆ — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2024
• Importing activists: Determinants and consequences of increased cross-border shareholder activism☆ — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2022
• Run EDGAR Run: SEC Dissemination in a High-Frequency World — Journal of Accounting Research 2017
• The role of the media in disseminating insider-trading news — Review of Accounting Studies 2016
• Payout policy through the financial crisis: The growth of repurchases and the resilience of dividends — Journal of Financial Economics 2015
• The Evolving Disclosure Landscape: How Changes in Technology, the Media, and Capital Markets Are Affecting Disclosure — Journal of Accounting Research 2015
• How should we think about earnings quality? A discussion of “Earnings quality: Evidence from the field”☆ — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2013
• Measuring securities litigation risk☆ — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2012
• Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan — The Accounting Review 2012
• Discussion of “Accounting standards and debt covenants: Has the “Balance Sheet Approach” led to a decline in the use of balance sheet covenants?”☆ — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2011
• What do dividends tell us about earnings quality? — Review of Accounting Studies 2011
• Implications for GAAP from an analysis of positive research in accounting☆ — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2010
• Management Forecasts in Japan: An Empirical Study of Forecasts that Are Effectively Mandated — The Accounting Review 2009
• Editors' Note — Journal of Accounting Research 2009
• Earnings guidance and market uncertainty — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2009
• Editorial Note: The 40th Anniversary of Ball and Brown [1968] — Journal of Accounting Research 2008
• The evolving relation between earnings, dividends, and stock repurchases — Journal of Financial Economics 2008
• Discussion of “The implications of unverifiable fair-value accounting: Evidence from the political economy of goodwill accounting” — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2008
• Does earnings guidance affect market returns? The nature and information content of aggregate earnings guidance☆ — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2007
• Editorial data — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2005
• Editorial Data — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2005
• Editorial Data — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2004
• Editorial data — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2004
• Are dividends disappearing? Dividend concentration and the consolidation of earnings — Journal of Financial Economics 2004
• The Role of Supplementary Statements with Management Earnings Forecasts — Journal of Accounting Research 2003
• Employee stock options, EPS dilution, and stock repurchases☆ — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2003
• Should firms disclose everything to everybody? A discussion of “Open vs. closed conference calls: the determinants and effects of broadening access to disclosure”☆ — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2003
• Editorial data — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2002
• Editorial data — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2002
• Editorial data — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2002
• Earnings Surprises, Growth Expectations, and Stock Returns or Don't Let an Earnings Torpedo Sink Your Portfolio — Review of Accounting Studies 2002
• Large–Sample Evidence on the Debt Covenant Hypothesis — Journal of Accounting Research 2002
• Editorial data — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2001
• Editorial data — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2001
• Editorial data — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2000
• Editorial data — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2000
• Editorial data — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2000
• Editorial data — Journal of Accounting and Economics 2000
• Special dividends and the evolution of dividend signaling — Journal of Financial Economics 2000
• How well does net income measure firm performance? A discussion of two studies — Journal of Accounting and Economics 1999
• Earnings disclosures and stockholder lawsuits — Journal of Accounting and Economics 1997
• Do Options Markets Improve Informational Efficiency?* — Contemporary Accounting Research 1997
• Reversal of fortune dividend signaling and the disappearance of sustained earnings growth — Journal of Financial Economics 1996
• Are disclosures about bank derivatives and employee stock options ‘value-relevant’? — Journal of Accounting and Economics 1996
• What motivates managers' choice of discretionary accruals? — Journal of Accounting and Economics 1996
• Accounting choice in troubled companies☆ — Journal of Accounting and Economics 1994
• The investment opportunity set and accounting procedure choice: Preliminary evidence☆ — Journal of Accounting and Economics 1993
• Dividends and Losses — The Journal of Finance 1992
• Options markets and the information content of accounting earnings releases☆ — Journal of Accounting and Economics 1990
• Options markets and stock return volatility — Journal of Financial Economics 1989
• Corporate payout policy — Journal of Financial Economics 1988