Name Michael Welker | ||
Dr. Michael Welker is a Professor of Financial Accounting and the KPMG Faculty Fellow at the Queen's School of Business. He is particularly notable for published research in which he and others examine firm disclosure practices and international accounting issues. He has also been honoured by appointments to the editorial boards of several scholarly journals.
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Academic background
Michael Alan Welker is Editor of the Journal of International Accounting Research (JIAR), a publication of the American Accounting Association; and a former Associate Editor of Contemporary Accounting Research, a publication of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association, from which he received the Haim Falk Award for Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Thought in 2011. He has served on the Editorial Board of The Accounting Review. He received his Ph.D from the University of Iowa.
Selected publications
Godsell, D. and M. Welker. 2012. Inconclusive Evidence. CA Magazine, 145(1): 42-44
Hongping, T., S. Wang and M. Welker. 2011. Analyst Following and Forecast Accuracy After Mandated IFRS Adoptions. Journal of Accounting Research, 49(5): 1307-1357.
Wang, S. and M. Welker. 2011. Timing Equity Issuance in Response to Information Asymmetry Arising from IFRS Adoption in Australia and Europe. Journal of Accounting Research, 49(1): 257-307.
Bae, K-H, H. Tan, M. Welker. 2008. International GAAP Differences: The Impact on Foreign Analysts. The Accounting Review, 83(3): 593-628.
Schultz, W. and M. Welker. 2006. Accounting Value.CA Magazine, 139(2): 57
Pae, J., D. Thornton and M. Welker. The Link Between Earnings Conservatism and the Price-to-Book Ratio. Contemporary Accounting Research, 22(3): 693-717.
Thornton, D. and M. Welker. 2004. The Effect of Oil and Gas Producers' FRR No. 48 Disclosures on Investor Risk. Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, 19(1): 85
Bhattacharya, U., H. Daouk and M. Welker. The World Price of Earnings Opacity. The Accounting Review, 78(3): 641-678.
Linsmeier, T., D. Thornton, M. Venkatachalam and M. Welker. 2002. The Effect of Mandated Market Risk Disclosures on Trading Volume Sensitivity to Interest Rate, Exchange Rate, and Commodity Price Movements. The Accounting Review, 77(2): 343-377.
Richardson, A. and M. Welker. 2002. Social disclosure, financial disclosure and cost of equity capital. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 26(7): 597-616.
Macintosh, N.B., T. Shearer, D. Thornton and M. Welker. 2000. Accounting as Simulacrum and Hyperreality: Perspectives on Income and Capital. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 25(1): 13-50.
Sparks, H.C. and M. Welker. 2001. Institutional, Individual and Specialist Trade Patterns Before and After Disclosure. Journal of Financial Research, 24(2): 261.
Welker, M. 1995. Disclosure Policy, Information Asymmetry and Liquidity in Equity Markets, Contemporary Accounting Research 11(2): 801.
Johnson, B., M. Young and M. Welker. 1993. Managerial Reputation and the Informativeness of Accounting and Market Measures of Performance. Contemporary Accounting Research, 10(1): 305-332