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Alastair Lawrence

Professor of Accounting

BA MAcc (Waterloo) PhD (Toronto) CPA (Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario, Canada)

If participating in or enquiring about an active field study, please contact alastair.lawrence@london.edu

Dr. Alastair Lawrence is a Professor of Accounting at the London Business School and previously, he was an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of California at Berkeley. 

His research investigates how investors use financial reporting information and the market pricing of digital firms.

His work has been published in leading publications such as The Accounting Review, Management Science, and the Journal of Accounting and Economics. He teaches Digital Investing and previously taught Financial Statement Analysis.


2024

Media Attention and Event-Based Grouping of Stocks: An Examination of Stocks Hyped by Media Outlets as Benefiting from the Olympics

Dechow P; Lawrence A; Luo M; Stamenov V

Management Science 2024 In Press

2023

Can executives predict how firm news maps to stock price? A field study at the onset of COVID-19

Bernard D; Juliani E M; Lawrence A

Review of Accounting Studies 2023 In Press

2021

Explaining firms’ earnings announcement stock returns using FactSet and I/B/E/S data feeds

Lawrence A; Hand J; Laurion H; Martin N

Review of Accounting Studies 2021 In Press

2018

Earnings announcement promotions: a Yahoo Finance field experiment

Lawrence A; Ryans J; Sun E; Laptev N

Journal of Accounting and Economics 2018 Vol 66:2-2 p 399-414

Managers’ cost of equity capital estimates: empirical evidence

Lawrence A; Larocque S; Veenstra K

Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance 2018 Vol 33:3 p 382-401

2017

Investor demand for sell-side research: SEC filings, media coverage, and market factors

Lawrence A; Ryans J; Sun E

Accounting Review 2017 March Vol 92:2 p 123-149

Is operational control risk informative of financial reporting deficiencies?

Lawrence A; Minutti-Meza M; Vyas D

Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory 2017 Vol 37:1 p 139-165

U.S. audit partner rotations

Laurion H; Lawrence A; Ryans J

Accounting Review 2017 May Vol 92:3 p 209-237

Why are losses less persistent than profits? : curtailments versus conservatism

Lawrence A; Sloan R; Sun E

Management Science 2017 Vol 64:2 p 673-694

2016

SEC comment letters and insider sales

Dechow P M; Lawrence A; Ryans J

Accounting Review 2016 March Vol 91:2 p 401-439

Who's the fairest of them all? Evidence from closed-end funds

Lawrence A; Siriviriyakul S; Sloan R

Accounting Review 2016 Vol 91:1 p 207-227

2013

Discussion of “Implications of the integral approach and earnings management for alternative annual reporting periods”

Lawrence A

Review of Accounting Studies 2013 Vol 18:3 p 892-898

Individual investors and financial disclosure

Lawrence A

Journal of Accounting and Economics 2013 Vol 56:1 p 130-147

Non-discretionary conservatism: evidence and implications

Lawrence A; Sloan R; Sun Y

Journal of Accounting and Economics 2013 Vol 56:2-3 p 112-133

2011

Can Big 4 versus non-Big 4 differences in audit quality proxies be attributed to client characteristics?

Lawrence A; Minutti-Meza M; Zhang P

Accounting Review 2011 Vol 86:1 p 259-286

2018

Analyst forecast data feeds are not what they used to be

Hand J R M; Laurion H; Lawrence A; Martin N

Social Sciences Research Network

2017

Earnings announcement promotions: a Yahoo Finance field experiment

Lawrence A; Ryans J P; Sun E; Laptev N

Social Sciences Research Network

2016

Is operational control risk informative of undetected financial reporting deficiencies?

Lawrence A; Minutti-Meza M; Vyas D

Social Sciences Research Network


Teaching portfolio

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