greatly appreciate the guidance from my dissertation committee: A. Rashad Abdel-khalik (chair), Ganapathi Narayanamoorthy, Kevin Jackson, and
Heitor Almeida. I also thank Beverly R. Walther (editor), two anonymous reviewers, Paul Beck, Dain Donelson, Yiwei Dou, Timothy Eaton, Anne Farrell,
Jonathan Grenier, Andrew Reffett, Theodore Sougiannis, Anne Thompson, and workshop participants at the University of Illinois, Miami University, and
the 2012 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting for their insightful comments and discussions. I gratefully acknowledge financial support
from the University of Illinois and Miami University.
This paper is based on my dissertation at the University of Illinois.
Editor’s note: Accepted by Beverly R. Walther.
Submitted: October 2012
Accepted: July 2015
Published Online: July 2015