Jake Thornock, PhD

Curriculum vitae (as of August 2019)

Academic Appointments:

• Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Management

  • Full Professor of Accounting (2019+)

  • John and Nancy Chaired Professorship (2019+ )

  • Associate Professor of Accounting  and Distinguished EY Fellow (2016-2019 )

• University of Washington, Foster School of Business

  • Associate Professor of Accounting, tenured (2014-2016)

  • Assistant Professor of Accounting (2010-2014)

Education

• Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2010)

• MAcc., Brigham Young University (2006)

• BS., Brigham Young University (2006)

Publications

• “Inter-firm Information Flows and Corporate Investment” (with Darren Bernard and Terrence Blackburne).  Forthcoming, Journal of Financial Economics

• “Is there information content in information acquisition?” (with Michael Drake, Bret Johnson and Darren Roulstone). Forthcoming, The Accounting Review

• “Auditor Disclosure Benchmarking and Client Financial Statement Disaggregation” (with Michael Drake, Phil Lamoreaux and Phil Quinn).  Forthcoming, Review of Accounting Studies

• “IRS Attention” (with Zahn Bozanic, Jeff Hoopes and Brady Williams).  Journal of Accounting Research (2017) 55:79-114.

• “An Examination of Firms’ Responses to Tax Forgiveness” (with Terry Shevlin and Brady Williams).  Review of Accounting Studies (2017) 22:577-607.

• “The Internet as an Information Intermediary” (with Michael Drake and Brady Twedt). Review of Accounting Studies (2017) 22:543-576.

• “Changes in Corporate Effective Tax Rates Over the Past Twenty-Five Years” (with Scott Dyreng, Michelle Hanlon and Edward Maydew). Journal of Financial Economics (2017) 124:441-463.

• “The Comovement of Investor Attention” (with Michael Drake, Jared Jennings and Darren Roulstone).  Management Science (2017) 63:2847-2867. 

• “Who Uses Financial Statements?  A Demographic Analysis of Financial Statement Downloads from EDGAR” (with Michael Drake and Phil Quinn).  Accounting Horizons (2017) 31:55-68.  

• “Does Use Tax Evasion Provide a Competitive Advantage to E-tailers?” (with Jeff Hoopes and Brady Williams).  National Tax Journal (2016) 69:133-168.

• “March Market Madness: The Impact of Value-Irrelevant Events on the Market Pricing of Earnings News” (with Michael Drake and Kurt Gee).  Contemporary Accounting Research (2016) 33:172-203.

• “The Usefulness of Historical Accounting Reports” (with Michael Drake and Darren Roulstone).  Journal of Accounting and Economics (2016) 61:448-464.

• “Taking the Long Way Home: U.S. Tax Evasion and Offshore Investments in U.S. Equity and Debt Markets” (with Michelle Hanlon and Edward Maydew). Journal of Finance (2015) 70: 257-287.

• “Market (In)attention and the strategic scheduling and timing of earnings announcements” (with Ed deHaan and Terry Shevlin).  Journal of Accounting and Economics (2015) 60:36-55.

• “The Determinants and Consequences of Information Acquisition via EDGAR” (with Michael Drake and Darren Roulstone).  Contemporary Accounting Research (2015) 32:1128-1161.

• “Optimistic Reporting and Pessimistic Investing: Do Pro Forma Earnings Disclosures Attract Short Sellers?” (with Ted Christensen and Michael Drake) Contemporary Accounting Research (2014) 31:67-102.

• “The Reputational Costs of Tax Avoidance” (with John Gallemore and Edward Maydew) , Contemporary Accounting Research (2014) 31: 1103-1133

• “Exploring the Role that Delaware Plays as a Domestic Tax Haven” Journal of Financial Economics (2013) 108:751-772. (with Scott Dyreng and Bradley Lindsey).  

• “Can Short Restrictions Actually Increase Informed Short Selling?” Financial Management (2013) 42: 155-181 (with Adam Kolasinski and Adam Reed).

• “The Effects of Dividend Taxation on Short Selling and Market Quality”(solo-authored dissertation). The Accounting Review (2013) 88:1833-1856.

• “The Information Content of Annual Earnings Announcements and Mandatory Adoption of IFRS” Journal of Accounting and Economics (2012) 53:34–54 (with Edward Maydew and Wayne Landsman).  

• “Investor Information Demand: Evidence from Google Searches around Earnings Announcements” Journal of Accounting Research (2012) 50:1001-1040 (with Michael Drake and Darren Roulstone).   

Service (selected)

• Editor: Contemporary Accounting Research (2019 - current)

• Ad Hoc Editor: Contemporary Accounting Research (2017 - 2019)

• Editorial board: The Accounting Review (2014 - current) 

• Editorial board: Contemporary Accounting Research (2017 - current)

• Ad Hoc Referee (past three years): The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Journal of American Taxation Association, Accounting, Organizations and Society; Accounting Horizons

• Co-chair, FARS Doctoral Consortium (2020)

• Chair, Deloitte Doctoral Consortium (2017-2019)

• FARS Steering Board (2015-2019)

• ATA Board of Trustes (2014-2017)

• ATA Doctoral Consortium - Chair (2016), committee (2015-2016)

Awards and Honors (selected)

• Marriott School of Business, Outstanding Researcher Award (2019)

• AAA FARS Best Paper Award (2019)

  • The Determinants and Consequences of Information Acquisition via EDGAR

• Best paper award, Accounting Horizons (2018) 

  • Who Uses Financial Statements?  A Demographic Analysis of Financial Statement Downloads from EDGAR

• EY Distinguished Professorship, Marriott School of Business (2018)

• Best discussant award, JATA Conference (2018)

• Outstanding discussant award, FARS Mid-year meeting (2018)

• National Service Award, American Accounting Association, FARS (2015)

• Andrew V. Smith Award for Excellence in Research, Foster School of Business (2015)

• PricewaterhouseCoopers Alumni Professorship, Foster School of Business (2015-16)

• Ron Crockett Award for Innovation in Education, Foster School of Business (2014)

• William and Helen Fowler Endowment for Special Achievement in Accounting Award, Foster School of Business (2013)

• Outstanding Ph.D. Mentor in Accounting, Foster School of Business (2013)

• William R. Gregory Faculty Fellow, Foster School of Business (2012-2015)

• Third prize, Chicago Quantitative Alliance Annual Academic Competition (2012)

• Delozier Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student, Kenan-Flagler Business School (2010)