Patricia O'Brien, University of Waterloo

Research

accounting financial reporting audit audit quality credibility reliability

Latest funding

Credible financial reporting
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$115,648
Determinants of financial analyst following and its value implications
SSHRC · 2011 · Co-investigator
$87,062
Financial reporting concepts
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$68,000

All 6 grants and awards

Credible financial reporting

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: O'Brien, Patricia C.

Keywords: accounting; financial reporting; audit; audit quality; credibility; reliability

$115,648

Determinants of financial analyst following and its value implications

Co-investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Tan, Hongping

Keywords: analyst following; IPO; geographic proximity; target price; institutional trading

$87,062

Financial reporting concepts

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: O'Brien, Patricia C.

Keywords: accounting; financial reporting; standards; concepts; regulation

$68,000

Financial analysts' conflicts of interest

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: O'Brien, Patricia C.

Keywords: financial analysts; investment banking; conflicts of interest; capital markets; regulation

$60,796

Compensation contracts, capital structure and accounting-based debt covenants

Co-investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Douglas, Alan V.S.

Keywords: debt contracts; compensation contracts; agency conflicts; accounting information; manipulation incentives; simultaneous equation estimation

$60,725

Financial analysts' role in capital markets

Principal investigatorSSHRC2000Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: O'Brien, Patricia

Keywords: financial analysts; capital markets; information environment; investment decisions; selection; quantitative methods; censored or truncated distribution; ordered probit or logit

$45,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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