PHILLIP C. STOCKEN
ASSSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

 
 

PHILLIP STOCKEN SPECIALIZES IN ACCOUNTING. HIS CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS INCLUDE THE FINANCIAL REPORTING BEHAVIOR OF FIRMS, ACCOUNTING VALUATION RULES, CREDIBLE COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION, AND EARNINGS MANAGEMENT.

 
 

PUBLICATIONS
Professor Stocken has published numerous works, including, with J. Morgan, “The Effects of Business Risk on Audit Pricing,” Review of Accounting Studies , 3(4), 1998; with R.E. Verrecchia, “Performance Monitoring and Financial Disclosure Choice,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics , 155(1), March 1999; “Credibility of Voluntary Disclosure,” RAND Journal of Economics , 31(2), Summer 2000; with P.E. Fischer, “Information Intermediaries and Communication,” Journal of Accounting Research , 39(1), June 2001; and with J. Morgan, “An Analysis of Stock Recommendations,” RAND Journal of Economics , 34(1), Spring 2003.

Professor Stocken is on the editorial board of the Review of Accounting Studies , and is a reviewer for the National Science Foundation.

BACKGROUND
Prior to joining Tuck, Professor Stocken was on the faculty at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Before entering academia, he was an assistant audit manager at Ernst & Young.

 

EDUCATION
BCom (Honors), University of the Witwatersrand, 1988; MCom, University of Witwatersrand, 1995; PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 1998. At Tuck since 2003.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Accounting.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH
In addition to teaching courses on accounting and financial management, analysis, and reporting at Tuck, Professor Stocken has conducted extensive research on corporations, including a study on the financial reporting behavior of a cross-section of nearly a thousand NYSE/NASDAQ firms.

AWARDS
Wharton Graduate Association MBA Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 1999, 2000; Wharton Graduate Association Teaching Award, 2001; Wharton School Graduate Division Miller-Sherrerd MBA Core Teaching Award 2002, 2003.