Ronald R. King

Senior Associate Dean and Myron Northrop Professor of Accounting

Areas of Expertise:

Accounting - Auditing; Accounting - Financial Reporting; Accounting - Regulation; Law and Economics

Research interests:

Business, law, and economics; auditing; experimental economics

Selected Publications:

• "An Experimental Investigation of Self-serving Biases in an Auditing Trust Game: The Role of Group Affiliation," The Accounting Review, April 2002
• "An Experimental Investigation of Auditors' Liability: Implications for Social Welfare and Explorations of Deviations from Theoretical Predictions," The Accounting Review, with R. Schwartz, October 2000
• "An Analysis of Settlement and Merit Under Federal Securities Law: What Will be the Effect of the Reform of 1995," Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, with J. Holloway, D. Ingberman, Spring 1999
• "An Experimental Investigation of Multi-Defendant Bargaining in Joint & Several and Proportionate Liability Regimes," Journal of Accounting and Economics, with N. Dopuch, N. Dopuch, D. Ingberman, 1997
• "Product Cost Information and Cost-Based Decisions: An Experimental Investigation," Contemporary Accounting Research, with M. Gupta, 1997
• "The Effects of Lowballing on Audit Quality: An Experimental Markets Study," Journal of Accounting Auditing & Finance, with N. Dopuch, 1996

Academic/professional activities:

Member: American Institute of CPAs and American Accounting Association
Associate Editor: Contemporary Accounting Research
Editorial Board Member: of a variety of academic accounting journals

Awards/honors:

Faculty Fellowship, 1991
KPMG Peat Marwick Foundation Research Fellowship Award, 1989
Teacher of the Year, B.S.B.A., 1987 and 1988

Personal interests:

Professor King enjoys history of ancient conflicts, heavy metal music, tennis, and bicycling.