Christopher Williams
- Arthur Andersen Professor of Accounting
- Faculty Director Accounting PhD Program
Education
- PhD University of North Carolina 2009
- MAcc Brigham Young University 2005
- BS Brigham Young University 2005
Chris Williams is a Professor of Accounting and the Michael and Joan Sakkinen Faculty Fellow at the Ross School of Business. His research focuses on the role of accounting in debt contracting, banking and risk. His research has been published in top accounting and finance journals including Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting & Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Accounting Studies. He is currently the Faculty Director of the Accounting PhD program. Chris received his PhD in accounting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and both his Masters and Bachelors in accounting from Brigham Young University.
Anticipatory effects around proposed regulation: Evidence from Basel III
Published Date
2023Source
The Accounting Review
Volume:
98Issue:
1Pages:
285-315Published Date
2022Source
Review of Accounting Studies
What's My Style? Supply-side Determinants of Debt Covenant Inclusion
Published Date
2022Source
Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting
Volume:
49Issue:
3Pages:
461-490CDS Trading and Non-Relationship Lending Dynamics
Published Date
2021Source
Review of Accounting Studies
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26Issue:
1Pages:
258-292Information Overload and Disclosure Smoothing
Published Date
2019Source
Review of Accounting Studies
Volume:
24Issue:
1Pages:
1486-1522Published Date
2019Source
Journal of Financial Economics
Volume:
133Issue:
2Pages:
379-396Published Date
2019Source
The Accounting Review
Volume:
94Issue:
4Pages:
303-344Effects on Comparability and Capital Market Benefits of Voluntary IFRS Adoption
Published Date
2018Source
Journal of Financial Reporting
Volume:
3Issue:
1Pages:
1-22The Informational Role of the Media in Private Lending
Published Date
03/2017Source
Journal of Accounting Research
Volume:
55Issue:
1Pages:
115-152Bank Competition: Measurement, Decision-Making and Risk-Taking
Published Date
06/2016Source
Journal of Accounting Research
Volume:
54Issue:
3Pages:
777-826Asymmetric Responses to Good and Bad News: A Case for Ambiguity.
Published Date
03/2015Source
The Accounting Review
Volume:
90Issue:
2Pages:
785-817Delayed Expected Loss Recognition and the Risk Profile of Banks
Published Date
06/2015Source
Journal of Accounting Research
Volume:
53Issue:
3Pages:
511The Impact of Ambiguity on Managerial Investment and Cash Holdings
Published Date
09/2014Source
Journal of Business Finance and Accounting
Volume:
41Issue:
7-8Pages:
1071-1099Accounting Discretion, Loan Loss Provisioning, and Discipline of Banks' Risk-Taking
Published Date
08/2012Source
Journal of Accounting & Economics
Volume:
54Issue:
1Pages:
1-18Are International Accounting Standards-based and US GAAP-based Accounting Amounts Comparable?
Published Date
08/2012Source
Journal of Accounting & Economics
Volume:
54Issue:
1Pages:
68-93Religious Social Norms and Corporate Financial Reporting
Published Date
10/2012Source
Journal of Business Finance and Accounting
Volume:
39Issue:
7-8Pages:
845-875