Richard M. Morton

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Richard M. Morton is a scholar working on Accounting, Finance and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard M. Morton has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Accounting, 18 papers in Finance and 15 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Richard M. Morton's work include Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (29 papers), Corporate Finance and Governance (21 papers) and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (17 papers). Richard M. Morton is often cited by papers focused on Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (29 papers), Corporate Finance and Governance (21 papers) and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (17 papers). Richard M. Morton collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Canada. Richard M. Morton's co-authors include Bruce K. Billings, Anwer S. Ahmed, Bok Baik, Turlough M. Finan, Thomas F. Schaefer, Mary Harris Stanford, Rahat Zaheer, Zhenchao Yuan, Jun‐Koo Kang and Alison Cowie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Molecular Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Richard M. Morton

33 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Role of Accounting Conservatism in Mitigating Bondholder-Shareholder Conflicts over Dividend Policy and in Reducing Debt Costs

2002 731 citations Anwer S. Ahmed, Bruce K. Billings et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard M. Morton United States	14	1.1k	537	420	121	118	35	1.4k
Zhenyu Wang United States	20	1.0k 0.9×	433 0.8×	3.0k 7.1×	1.7k 14.4×	288 2.4×	47	3.6k
Preeti Choudhary United States	13	589 0.5×	294 0.5×	150 0.4×	100 0.8×	25 0.2×	44	671
Joseph H. Schroeder United States	14	554 0.5×	169 0.3×	186 0.4×	70 0.6×	35 0.3×	33	687
Wenxia Ge Canada	11	416 0.4×	311 0.6×	184 0.4×	103 0.9×	50 0.4×	31	651
Ashok Kumar Panigrahi India	11	151 0.1×	93 0.2×	28 0.1×	66 0.5×	21 0.2×	80	384
Md. Harun Ur Rashid Bangladesh	16	242 0.2×	233 0.4×	68 0.2×	207 1.7×	7 0.1×	36	627
Liu Yun China	11	138 0.1×	64 0.1×	48 0.1×	64 0.5×	77 0.7×	21	411
An Yan United States	10	229 0.2×	49 0.1×	240 0.6×	90 0.7×	61 0.5×	33	426
Haina Shi China	12	369 0.3×	212 0.4×	92 0.2×	48 0.4×	5 0.0×	26	458
Liwei Shan China	8	147 0.1×	93 0.2×	65 0.2×	77 0.6×	66 0.6×	16	356

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20 of 20 papers shown

Morton, Richard M., et al.. (2020). The Economic Effects of Earnings Management Pre- and Post-SOX. DigiNole (Florida State University). 20(1). 76–103. 2 indexed citations

Smith, Thomas, et al.. (2020). Accrual Management and the Decision to Sell or Hold Shares Acquired from the Exercise of Employee Stock Options. 5(1). 115–134.

Morton, Richard M., et al.. (2019). Investor Overreaction to Earnings Surprises and Post‐Earnings‐Announcement Reversals. Contemporary Accounting Research. 36(4). 2069–2092. 6 indexed citations

Billings, Bruce K., James Moon, & Richard M. Morton. (2018). Lagged Earnings Asymmetry in a Firm-Year Measure of Accounting Conservatism. 3(1). 23–44. 2 indexed citations

Baik, Bok, et al.. (2016). Analysts’ pre-tax income forecasts and the tax expense anomaly. Review of Accounting Studies. 21(2). 559–595. 22 indexed citations

Morton, Richard M., et al.. (2013). Accrual Management and the Decision to Hold the Shares Acquired from the Exercise of Executive Stock Options. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

White, Catharine E., et al.. (2012). Control of hydroxyproline catabolism in Sinorhizobium meliloti. Molecular Microbiology. 85(6). 1133–1147. 27 indexed citations

Baik, Bok, Jun‐Koo Kang, & Richard M. Morton. (2010). Why Are Analysts Less Likely to Follow Firms with High Managerial Ownership?. Journal of Accounting Auditing & Finance. 25(2). 171–200. 30 indexed citations

Baik, Bok, Bruce K. Billings, & Richard M. Morton. (2007). Reliability and Transparency of Non-GAAP Disclosures by Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations

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Baik, Bok, Jun‐Koo Kang, & Richard M. Morton. (2007). Earnings Management in Takeovers of Privately Held Targets. SSRN Electronic Journal. 10 indexed citations

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Baik, Bok, Jun‐Koo Kang, & Richard M. Morton. (2007). Managerial Ownership and Information Opacity. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Baik, Bok, Bruce K. Billings, & Richard M. Morton. (2006). The Effect of Increased Transparency on Manipulation and Value Relevance of Non-GAAP Disclosures by Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations

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Yuan, Zhenchao, Rahat Zaheer, Richard M. Morton, & Turlough M. Finan. (2006). Genome prediction of PhoB regulated promoters in Sinorhizobium meliloti and twelve proteobacteria. Nucleic Acids Research. 34(9). 2686–2697. 96 indexed citations

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Baik, Bok, Bruce K. Billings, & Richard M. Morton. (2005). Manipulation, Increased Transparency, and Value Relevance of Non-Gaap Disclosures for Real Estate Investment Trusts (Reits). SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Anwer S., Bruce K. Billings, & Richard M. Morton. (2004). Extreme Accruals, Earnings Quality, and Investor Mispricing. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Anwer S., Bruce K. Billings, Richard M. Morton, & Mary Harris Stanford. (2002). The Role of Accounting Conservatism in Mitigating Bondholder-Shareholder Conflicts over Dividend Policy and in Reducing Debt Costs. SSRN Electronic Journal. 115 indexed citations

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Morton, Richard M. & John D. Neill. (2001). The value-relevance of current and forward-looking accounting information subsequent to a corporate restructuring. Advances in Accounting. 18. 195–220. 5 indexed citations

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Billings, Bruce K. & Richard M. Morton. (2001). Book‐to‐Market Components, Future Security Returns, and Errors in Expected Future Earnings. Journal of Accounting Research. 39(2). 197–219. 22 indexed citations

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Billings, Bruce K. & Richard M. Morton. (1999). Book-to-Market Components, Future Security Returns, and Errors in Expected Future Earnings. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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Morton, Richard M.. (1998). The Incremental Informativeness of Stock Prices for Future Accounting Earnings*. Contemporary Accounting Research. 15(1). 57–81. 1 indexed citations

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