market-based accounting research, accruals pricing, losses, real and accruals-based earnings management, R&D, corporate governance, IFRS adoption, M&A.
Pinto, L., Sá, C., Soares, N., Sousa, S. and Valente, M. (2021) "Exploring the consistency of ethical perceptions by business and economics higher education students: looking from academia towards the corporate world", International Journal of Management Education, Vol. 19, N.º2. (link)
Pinto, L., Sá, C., Soares, N., Sousa, S. and Valente, M. (2020) "The case for academic hazing as a rational choice: An economic approach", Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 66, pp. 51-62. (link)
Soares, N. and Valente, M. (2020) "Exploring the relation between cultural values and R&D investment under the behavioral theory of the firm", Journal of Small Business Strategy, Vol. 30, N.º 1, pp. 31-42. (link)
Patel, P., Guedes, M.J., Soares, N. and Gonçalves, V. (2018) “Strength of the Association between R&D Volatility and Firm Growth: The Roles of Corporate Governance and Tangible Asset Volatility”, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 88, pp. 282–288. (link)
Farinha, J., Mateus, C. and Soares, N. (2018) “Cash Holdings and Earnings Quality: Evidence from the Main and Alternative UK Markets ”, International Review of Financial Analysis, Vol. 56, pp. 238-252. (link)
Farinha, J., Mateus, C. and Soares, N. (2017) “Price Discounts in Rights Issues: Why Do Managers Insist On What Investors Hate?”, European Business Review, Vol. 29, N.º4, pp. 457-475. (link)
Guedes, M.J., Gonçalves, V., Soares, N. and Valente, M. (2016) “UK Evidence for the Determinants of R&D Intensity from a Panel Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)”, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 69, N.º 11, pp. 5431-5436. (link)
Jiang, W., Soares, N. and Stark, A. (2016) “Loss Persistence and Returns in the UK”, Accounting and Business Research, Vol. 46, N.º 3, pp. 221-242. (link)
Soares, N. and Stark, A. (2009) “The Accruals Anomaly - Can Implementable Portfolio Strategies be Developed that are Profitable Net of Transactions Costs in the UK”, Accounting and Business Research, Vol. 39, N.º 4, pp. 321-345. (link)
Soares, N. and Stark, A. (2015) “Controlling for Risk in Accounting Research”, in The Routledge Companion to Financial Accounting Theory, ed. Stewart Jones. (link)
Guedes, M. J., Gaio, C. and Soares, N. (2018) "Exploring the Relationship Between Gender Diversity and Earnings Management: Does Critical Mass Matter". 1st International Conference on Gender Research Conference Proceedings, Porto, Portugal.
Soares, N., Patel, P.C., Guedes, M.J. and Gonçalves, V.C. (2017) "R&D volatility and firm growth: complementary role of corporate governance and tangible asset volatility" 7th GIKA Conference Proceedings. "Innovation, knowledge, judgement and Decision-making in virtuous cycles".
"Economic Policy Uncertainty, Accounting Profits/Losses, and Insider Trading", with Wei Jiang and Tianshu Ma.
"Do Investors Misunderstand Loss Persistence? Evidence from Institutional Investors", with Wei Jiang and Tianshu Ma.
"Thinking Positive: Exploring Incentivized Subjective Expectations of Grades in a Higher Education Quantitative Course", with Marieta Valente, Carla Sá and Sílvia Sousa.
"Earnings Forecast and the Valuation of Loss-Making Firms", with Andrew Stark, Wei Jiang and Najeeba Alzaimoor.
"Independent Sources of Information About UK Expected Returns ", with Andrew Stark and Wei Jiang.
Sá, C., Soares, N., Sousa, S. and Valente, M. (2017) "Ethical Perceptions of Corporate Behaviour by Business and Economics Students: Exploratory Study on the Relation with Perceptions of Academic Misconduct". Honorable mention at the 4th Interdisciplinary Insights on Fraud and Corruption Conference (Porto, Portugal, November 25, 2017).
ECOOPE - EU grant agreement No SI2.753470 DG GROWTH. (link)
PTDC/EGE-GES/122976/2010: “A Anomalia dos Accruals no Contexto Europeu”.
Associate Editor for the Meditari Accountancy Research
Journal of Business, Finance & Accounting
Accounting and Business Research
British Accounting Review
International Review of Financial Analysis
European Journal of Finance
Research in International Business and Finance
Journal of International Accounting Research
Meditari Accountancy Research