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53rd Annual (2018) Journal of Accounting Research Conference: The Role of Gate-Keepers in Accounting
Call For Papers

The 2018 Journal of Accounting Research conference will be held at the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago on May 11-12, 2018.

TOPICS: The 2018 conference aims to bring together scholars to discuss current issues relating to the interactions of gate-keepers with accounting. We invite the submission of theoretical, empirical, field and clinical studies related to the conference topic. We encourage papers across a broad range of topics related to the role of gate-keepers in accounting. For example, we are interested in papers that provide insights into any of the following issues or any broadly related issues.

Roles of auditors, analysts, regulators, institutional investors, stock exchanges, rating agencies, lenders, tax authorities, the media and other gate-keepers on or in:
- Financial or tax reporting
- Informativeness of accounting numbers
- Voluntary and mandated disclosure
- Managerial accounting
- Corporate governance
- Securities issuance
- Private financing
- Decisions of firms to go public or remain public
- Actions and roles of other gate-keepers

Uses, or effects, of gate-keepers for:
- Voluntary and mandated disclosure
- Financial or tax reporting
- Fraud and financial misreporting
- Proprietary information
- Corporate governance
- Securities issuance
- Activities of firms or individuals in the real economy
- Private financing
- Decisions of firms to go public or remain public
- Actions and roles of other gate-keepers

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Papers should be submitted electronically through the links provided on the Journal of Accounting Research Web site at http://www.chicagobooth.edu/jar. The submission fee is $500.00. The deadline for submission is December 1, 2017.

Posted: 31 Jan 2017