Working Paper Series

The Working Paper Series highlights the ongoing research of Coles College faculty. This collection features drafts of research articles usually intended for future publication, but shared in early stages to motivate intellectual discussions. Such discussions can potentially lead to novel research extensions; promote high impact collaborations across departments in addition to improving the quality of ongoing faculty research.

Final published versions of these papers are often available in the Digital Commons Collection or Coles Faculty Research Webpage.

Accepted Articles from Fall 2025 (Regular Issue)
1. Kelly Ha. Warning Signs: Climate Change Discourse and Subsequent Asset Write-downs. FALL25-01, November 2025.
2. Prachi Gala. When Universities Hire CMOs: A 12-Year Study of Marketing Leadership in Public Universities. FALL25-02, November 2025.
3. Heather Morgan, Laura Boman, Sarah Lefebvre. More on the Square: How Dinnerware Shape Influences Portion Size Estimates. FALL25-03, November 2025.
4. Hyunju Shin. The Role of CEO-TMT Generational Alignment in Driving Firm Innovation. FALL25-04, November 2025.
5. Donald L. Ariail, Katherine Smith, Lawrence Murphy Smith, Amine Khayati. Which CSR Activities Motivate Socially Responsible Buying?. FALL25-05, November 2025.
6. Donald L. Ariail, Amine Khayati, Carol Hulsey. The Effect of An Integrity Statement on Exam Cheating by Accounting Students. FALL25-06, November 2025.
7. Filippo Occhino. Investment Expensing without Tax Credits or Interest Deductibility: A Macroeconomic Evaluation. FALL25-07, November 2025.
8. Rajaram Veliyath. The Effect of Institutional Distance on Cross-border M&A Performance: The Role of ‘Play of the Game’ Experience. FALL25-08, November 2025.
9. NeCole Smith (MSHMI Student), Sweta Sneha. Neurodivergent Inclusion in Corporate Workplace Environments: A Literature Review Integrating AI and Data-Driven Strategies. FALL25-09, November 2025.
10. Paris Carter (MSHMI Student), Dominic Thomas. Plain Language Integration in Electronic Health Record Systems. FALL25-10, November 2025.
11. Maryann Mugo (MSHMI Student), Oyebisi Oladeji. Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Telemedicine Utilization in NW Georgia. FALL25-11, November 2025.
12. MSHMI Students: Sydney Lindsay, Jalyn Jackson, Jasmine Johnson, Shania Fernandes, Faculty: Sweta Sneha, Soo Il Shin. A Data-Driven View of Virtual Nursing Productivity Using Microsoft Power BI. FALL25-12, November 2025.
13. Maranie Brown (MSHMI Student), Maria Valero de Clemente. Training & Curriculum at the Intersection of Cybersecurity & Healthcare. FALL25-13, November 2025.
Accepted Articles from Fall 2025 (Special Issue - Coles Research Symposium on Homeland Security)
1. Miloslava Plachkinovа. Ace Vо. AI Agents for Data Leak Prevention: A Framework for Critical Infrastructure Protection. SIFALL25-01, November 2025.
2. Aaron French. Tabloids, Fake News, and the Overton Window: The COP Model on News Consumption in Uncertain Times. SIFALL25-02, November 2025.
3. James Boudreau, Abhra Roy. Private Strength and Public Signals: Optimal Information Disclosure under Spying. SIFALL25-03, November 2025.
4. Abhra Roy, Leo MacDonald. Conflict and Concealment: How Inequality Drives Elite Misrepresentation and Social Unrest. SIFALL25-04, November 2025.
Accepted Articles from Spring 2025
1. Prachi Gala, Saim Kashmiri, Jason Koufodontis. The Dark Side of Integrity: Influence of CEO Integrity on Risk-Taking Propensity and Digital Orientation. SPRING25-01, April 2025.
2. Xi Zhang, Ann Atwater. The Quality of Online Instruction and Returns to Instructor Experience. SPRING25-02, April 2025.
3. Gunnar Heins, Matthew Michalak, Xi Zhang. Pricing in the Presence of an Inferior Good and Income Inequality: Evidence from Intercity Bus Travel in Germany. SPRING25-03, April 2025.
4. Alberto Peralta, Susan Young. Entrepreneurial Perception of Institutional Voids. SPRING25-04, April 2025.
5. Botong Xue, Zhenya Tang, Feng Xu, Xin Luo. An Investigation on Users’ In-category Password Reuse Behavior: The Critical Role of Account Similarities and Cognitive Load. SPRING25-05, April 2025.
6. Laura Boman, Sarah Lefebvre, Merlyn Griffiths. Label Lust: How Eco-Claims Seduce Our Health Perceptions, Taste Buds, and What’s in Our Carts. SPRING25-06, April 2025.
7. Marcus Caylor, Duanping Hong, Hyungshin Park, Hong Qu. Do You Believe in Second Chances? SPRING25-07, April 2025.
8. Hossein Mohit. Public Perception and Market Response to the FTX Crypto Exchange Collapse: A Twitter Analysis. SPRING25-08, April 2025.
Accepted Articles from Fall 2024 (Regular Issue)
1. Julie Di Natale, Ganga Urumutta Hewage, Laura Boman. The Effect of Experiential and Material Purchases on Preference for Product-Country Image Labels. FALL24-01, November 2024.
2. Prachi Gala, Saim Kashmiri, Jason Joufodontis. CEO Integrity’s Influence on Firm Digital Orientation: How CMOs and Ad Intensity Drive Digital Orientation. FALL24-01, November 2024.
3. Zhaoguo Zhan. Composite Quantile Regression for Alpha Estimation. FALL24-03, November 2024.
4. Rongbing Huang, Hong Qian. Registered Direct Offerings and Confidentiality Marketed Public Offerings. FALL24-04, November 2024.
5. Borhan Sayedy, Melsa Ararat. The Role of Individual Shareholders in Advancing Board Gender Diversity: Insights from an Emerging Market. FALL24-05, November 2024.
6. Jong Gwang Kim, Sang Bin Moon, Christopher G. Brinton, Abolfazl Hashemi. A New Lagrangian Approach for NonConvex Non-Smooth Representatives of Fairness Constraints. FALL24-06, November 2024.
7. Aaron French. A Framework for the Blockchain Ecosystem for Smart Tourism. FALL24-07, November 2024.
8. Donald L. Ariail, Amine Khayati, Katherine Taken Smith, L. Murphy Smith. An Examination of Ethical Leadership in Academia: A Study of Accounting Faculty. FALL24-08, November 2024.
9. Donald L. Ariail, Amine Khayati, Mikhail Melnik, L. Murphy Smith. Business and Accounting Student Academic Dishonesty: Ethical Theory-Related Rationalizations and Cheating Perceptions. FALL24-09, November 2024.
10. Donald L. Ariail, Amine Khayati, Steve Smalt, Benedikt Quosigk. What Factors Affect the Academic Performance and Financial Anxiety of Accounting Students? FALL24-10, November 2024.
11. Jong Gwang Kim. A First-Order Decomposition Algorithm for Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems. FALL24-11, November 2024.
12. Jong Gwang Kim, Ashish Chandra, Abolfazl Hashemi, Christopher G. Brinton. A Fast Single-Loop Primal-Dual Algorithm for Non-Convex Functional Constrained Optimization. FALL24-12, November 2024.
13. Ashish Chandra, Jong Gwang Kim. Reliability Certification of Supply Chain Networks Under Uncertain Failures and Demand. FALL24-13, November 2024.
14. Kelly Ha, Bryan Brockbank, Mary Hill, Wayne B. Thomas. The Power of Accounting: Capitalization of Cloud Computing for Utilities. FALL24-14, November 2024.
15. Christine McCallum, Mona Sinha, Prachi Gala. How Loneliness Spurs Materialism: Roles of Emotion Regulation, Selfenhancement, And Escapism. FALL24-15, November 2024.
16. Ann Johnson, Calise Hammonds, Bunmi Simpson, Sweta Sneha. The Healing Power of Data: A Novel Data Visualization Solution Which Can Help Improve Quality and Safety Through Data Democratization. FALL24-16, November 2024.
17. Denise Thomas, Elizabeth Vasquez, Sweta Sneha. Unraveling the Influence of Social Determinants of Health. FALL24-17, November 2024.
18. Andre Derilus, Deborah Ojumu, Jordyn Fleming, Mariah Hubbard, Nathanial Blackmon IV, Kesjiah Wilcher, Austin Brown, Sweta Sneha. Predictave Analysis of Youth Risk Behavior and Suicidal Ideation Post-COVID. FALL24-18, November 2024.
Accepted Articles from Fall 2024 (Special Issue - Coles Research Symposium on Homeland Security)
1. Abhra Roy, Jomon A. Paul, A Model of Fortification Using Bayesian Persuasion. SIFALL24-01, November 2024.
2. James Boudreau, Shane Sanders. Tullock Contest Alliances With Proportional Prize-sharing Agreements: Private Collective Action Mechanisms? SIFALL24-02, November 2024.
3. Aaron French. A Typology Of Disinformation Intentionality And Impact. SIFALL24-03, November 2024.
Accepted Articles from Spring 2024
1. Prachi Gala, Samuel Staebler. Media Attention Given to Six CEO News Types and Its Influence on Consumer Evaluations. SPRING24-01, March 2024.
2. Lucy F. Ackert, Amine Khayati, James G. Tompkins. Characteristics of a Rubber Stamp Board: The Curious Case of Enron. SPRING24-02, March 2024.
3. Bryan Brockbank, Mary S. Hill, Sunay Mutlu. Supplier Financing Agreements and Cash Flows. SPRING24-03, March 2024.
Accepted Articles from Fall 2023 (Regular Issue)
1. Julius A. Wright, Humayun Zafar. CIVP: Cryptocurrency Internal Validation Process. FALL23-01, November 2023.
2. Prachi Gala, Saim Kashmiri, Duncan Nicol. Do Powerful Female CEOs Prefer Relational CSR Compared to Male CEOs? FALL23-02, November 2023.
3. Nik Nikolov, Mihail Miletkov, Viktoria Staneva. The X Factor in the Boardroom: Generation X Directors and their Impact on the Firm’s Advertising Mix and its Efficiency. FALL23-03, November 2023.
4. Aaron French, Amy Woszczynski, Carole Hollingsworth, David Rusk. Gender in IS Research: Who’s on Top? FALL23-04, November 2023.
5. Austin Brown, Sweta Sneha, MSHMI Students: Jazmyne Lane, Anas Alhasan Almashhour. Assessing the Relationship Between Preventive Care Practices and Suicidal Ideation Among High School Students: An Analysis Using the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System. FALL23-05, November 2023.
6. Valentina Nino, Maria Valero de Clemente, Sweta Sneha, MSHMI Students: Bonnie Theresias, Riley Tucker, Janice Goins, Jovelle Patterson, Nicole Ogbuagu. Virtual Nursing Discharge: Enhancing Health and Well-Being while Reducing Readmissions. FALL23-06, November 2023.
7. Sweta Sneha, MSHMI Students: Joli Miracle, Farah Muttardy, Richard Ogniewski, Eli Tannouri. Barcode Medication Administration – Process Mapping and Assessing in a Military Hospital. FALL23-07, November 2023.
Accepted Articles from Fall 2023 (Special Issue - Coles Research Symposium on Homeland Security
1. Abhra Roy, Jomon A. Paul. A Model of Fortification Using Bayesian Persuasion. SIFALL23-01, November 2023.
2. Aniruddha Bagchi. When Does a Country Attack an Adversary? the Joint Role of Cost of Attack and Quality of Information. SIFALL23-02, November 2023.
3. Leo MacDonald, Jomon A. Paul. A Differential Game Analysis of Attack-Defense Strategies Involving Cybersecurity. SIFALL23-03, November 2023.
4. Andy Green. Using Honeypot Data to Detect Adversarial Tactic, Technique, and Procedure Changes Based on Victim Geolocation. SIFALL23-04, November 2023.
5. Jason Williams, Humayun Zafar, Saurabh Gupta. Fortifying Healthcare: An Action Research Approach to Developing an Effective SETA Program. SIFALL23-05, November 2023.
6. Andy Green, Dejarvis Oliver, Amy Woszczynski. To Report or Not to Report? Exploring Protection Motivation Theory to Understand Decision-Making of Cybersecurity Researchers Who Discover Vulnerabilities. SIFALL23-06, November 2023.
7. Abhra Roy. The Effect of Media Bias on Conflict and the Provision Of a Public Good in a Model of Location Choice. SIFALL23-07, November 2023.
Accepted Articles from Spring 2023
1. Atanas Nik Nikolov, Wesley Friske, Todd Morgan. Making the Grade: An Analysis of Sustainability Reporting Standards and GRI Adherence Ratings. SPRING23-01, March 2023.
2. Sergey Lebedev, Mike W. Peng. Subnational Institutional Differences, R&D-Performance, Relationship, and FDI Spillovers in Russia. SPRING23-02, March 2023.
3. Prachi Gala, Vishal K. Gupta, Daniel G. Bachrach, Sandra C. Mortal, Xiahu Guo. CEO Pay Slice and Firm Value: Is Corporate Social Responsibility a Missing Link? SPRING23-03, March 2023.
4. Filippo Occhino. The Macroeconomic Effects of Business Tax Cuts. SPRING23-04, March 2023.
5. Jomon A. Paul, Prachi Gala. A Generic Decision Support Framework for Identification of Societal Impact Themes and Its Measurement in a B-School. SPRING23-05, March 2023.
6. Gohar S. Sedrakyan. The Impact of RTAs on Trade in Indonesia. SPRING23-06, March 2023.
7. Stefano Mazzotta. Immigration Narrative Sentiment and Home Prices. SPRING23-07, March 2023.
Accepted Articles from Fall 2022 (Special Issue - Coles Research Symposium on Homeland Security
1. Jomon A. Paul, Xinfang (Jocelyn) Wang, Aniruddha Bagchi. COVID-19 Policy Failure and Success: A Configurational Perspective. SIFALL22-01, November 2022.
2. Aniruddha Bagchi, Xiao Huang, Benjamin Scafidi. Conflicts and Education Expenditure. SIFALL22-02, November 2022.
3. Leo MacDonald, Aniruddha Bagchi. Dynamic Model of Conflict with Endogenous Destruction. SIFALL22-03, November 2022.
4. Abhra Roy. Conflict, Inequality and the Provision of a Public Good in a Model of Location Choice. SIFALL22-04, November 2022.
5. Jomon A. Paul, Abhra Roy. A Model of Fortification: A Bayesian Persuasion Approach. SIFALL22-05, November 2022.
Accepted Articles from Fall 2022 (Regular Issue)
1. Prachi Gala, Duncan Nicol. Putting People First: Female CEOs and Relational CSR. FALL22-01, November 2022.
2. Kelly Ha, Sunay Mutlu. Do SPAC Combinations Affect Their Peers’ Accounting Quality? FALL22-02, November 2022.
3. Birton Cowden, Shelby Solomon, Josh Bendickson. History and Race in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. FALL22-03, November 2022.
4. Joshua Palmer, Lee Macenczak, Stacy Campbell. The Differential Effects of Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism on Justice Orientation. FALL22-04, November 2022.
5. Marcus Caylor, Duanping Hong, Hyungshin Park, Hong Qu. Market Reactions to Innovative Firms’ Earnings News. FALL22-05, November 2022.
Accepted Articles from Spring 2022
1. Hong Qu, Lucy F. Ackert, Dana R. Hermanson, Velina K. Popova. The Joint Effect of Justification and Uncertainty on Real Earnings Management. SPRING22-01, March 2022.
2. Frank Kleibergen, Zhaoguo Zhan. Misspecification and Weak Identification in Asset Pricing. SPRING22-02, March 2022.

Working Paper Series Archive 2021 - 2014

Editorial Board

Jomon A. Paul
Aniruddha Bagchi
Laura Boman
Marcus Caylor
Rongbing Huang
Pramod Iyer
Leo MacDonald

Canan Mutlu
Nik Nikolov
Vineeta Sharma
Sweta Sneha
Rajaram Veliyath
Humayun Zafar

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