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Abdullah Kumas

Professor of Accounting


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    • Awards

      Best paper Award at Graduate Student Research Day (shared), SMU, February 2008

      Dedman College Travel Grant, SMU, April 2008

      President's Volunteer Service Award, SMU, April 2008

      Graduate Student Assembly Conference Presentation Travel Grant, SMU, November 2007 

    • Presentations

      "Aggregate Market Attention and Earnings Announcements" at the American Accounting Association, Washington DC, August 2012

      "Reassessing the Effect of Bilateral Tax Treaties on U.S. FDI Activity" at the Texas Camp Econometrics XII, Houston, TX, February 2007

      "The Failure of Public Unions in Turkey: An Instrumental Quantile Regression Approach" at the Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, LA, November 2007

      "Asymmetric FDI and Withholding Tax Rates: Evidence from OECD" at the Midwest Economics Association, Chicago, IL, March 2008

      Best paper Award at Graduate Student Research Day, SMU, Dallas, TX, February 2008 (shared)

  • Publications
    Journal Articles
    Publications:
    1. “” with Marshall Geiger, Bret Johnson, and Keith Jones (November, 2022) Management Science Vol 68, Issue 11, pp. 7793-8514
    2. “.” with Geiger, M.A., Keskek, S. & Kumas, A Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting Vol. 59, pp. 913–937 (2022).
    3. "" Geiger, M.A., Hasan, R., Kumas, A. and Smith, J.v.d.L. (2022), International Journal of Managerial Finance, Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 594-612
    4. "" Cready, W.M. and Kumas, A. (2020), Asian Review of Accounting, Vol. 28 No. 4, pp. 591-617.
    5. “” with Marshall Geiger and Sami Keskek (2020) International Journal of Auditing Vol. 20 Issue 1, March: pp. 37-52.
    6. “?” with Marshall Geiger, Omer Gokalp and Sami Keskek Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (2020) Vol. 55, pp. 1003–1033.
    7. “” with Marshall Geiger International Journal of Auditing 2018 (22): 522-535
    8. “” with Joyce van der Laan Smith and Rajib Hasan Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics 2018 (14): 126-141.
    9. “” with Daniel Millimet Journal of Economics and Finance (2018) (42) 451-470.
    10. “” with William Cready and Musa Subasi Journal of Accounting Research 2014 (52): 877-909
    11. “” with Daniel L. Millimet, in L. Sachs and K.P. Sauvant (eds.), The Effect of BITs and DTTs on FDI Flows, Oxford University Press, 2009: pp: 635-657.

    Working Papers: 

    1. “Information discovery, interpretation, and analysis by institutional investors around earnings            announcements?” with Sami Keskek
      *Submitted to 2024 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting
    2. “Enhanced Information Access: How Investor Conferences Influence Institutional Trading Ahead of    Takeover Announcements” with Musa Subasi (University of Maryland)
      *Submitted to 2024 American Accounting Association Spark Meeting
    3. “Spider Business School:  Improving Cost Structure” with Zach Duray (黑料传送门)
      *Submitted to 2024 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting

    Working-in-progress:

    1. “A New Perspective on the Earnings-Induced Volume: Participation Rate and Participation Magnitude Components of Trading Volume” with William Cready (UT Dallas) and Musa Subasi (University of Maryland)
    2. “Director Network and Auditor’s Going Concern Modified Opinions” with Marshall Geiger (黑料传送门) and Ted Polat (George Mason University)
    3. “The Value of Cash and Relation between Earnings and Return” with William Cready and Sami Keskek
    4. “Value-at-Risk and Returns in Banking Industry” with Hulusi Inanoglu (Federal Reserve System)
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