Associate Professor of Accounting

Professor Mittendorf's research interests involve how incentives influence and are influenced by accounting practices. His research has studied features of accounting systems that make them amenable to audit and useful in disciplining other corporate disclosures. His current research concerns motivational considerations in commonly confronted accounting and operational choices.

Selected Articles
"Friction in Related Party Trade when a Rival is also a Customer" (with A. Arya and D. Yoon), Management Science, forthcoming
 
"The Make or Buy Decision in the Presence of a Rival" (with A. Arya and D. Sappington), Management Science, forthcoming

"Infectious Ethics: How Upright Employees Can Ease Tacit Collusion Among Peers", Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, forthcoming
  
"Pricing Internal Trade to Get a Leg Up on External Rivals" (with A. Arya), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol. 17, 709-731, 2008

"Outsourcing, Vertical Integration, and Price vs. Quantity Competition" (with A. Arya and D. Sappington), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 26, 1-16, 2008

"The Bright Side of Supplier Encroachment" (with A. Arya and D. Sappington), Marketing Science, Vol. 26, 651-659, 2007
 
"The Interaction among Disclosure, Competition between Firms, and Analyst Following" (with A. Arya), Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 43, 321-339, 2007

"Interacting Supply Chain Distortions: The Pricing of Internal Transfers and External Procurement" (with A. Arya), Accounting Review, Vol. 82, 551-580, 2006

"Capital Budgeting when Managers Value both Honesty and Perquisites", Journal of Management Accounting Research, Vol. 18, 77-95, 2006

"Project Assignments when Budget Padding Taints Resource Allocation" (with A. Arya), Management Science,  Vol. 52, 1345-1358, 2006

"Using Disclosure to Influence Herd Behavior and Alter Competition" (with A. Arya), Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 40, 231-246, 2005

"Offering Stock Options to Gauge Managerial Talent" (with A. Arya), Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 40, 189-210, 2005 

"The Role of Biased Earnings Guidance in Creating a Healthy Tension between Managers and Analysts" (with Y. Zhang), Accounting Review, Vol. 80, 1193-1209, 2005

For Professor Mittendorf's working papers, please visit his personal website >>

Education
PhD Ohio State University, 2002
BA Baylor University, 1996