George J. Benston

Emory University - Department of Accounting

Harland Professor of Finance

Goizueta Business School

1300 Clifton Road

Atlanta, GA 30322

United States

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Liquidity Beyond the Inside Spread: Measuring and Using Information in the Limit Order Book

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 17 Aug 2000
Paul J. Irvine, George J. Benston and Eugene Kandel
Neeley School of Business, Emory University - Department of Accounting and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics
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A Perspective on the SEC's Proposal to Accept Financial Statements Prepared in Accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Without Reconciliation to U.S. GAAP

Accounting Horizons, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2008, University of Alberta School of Business Research Paper No. 2013-679
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 11 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2013
Karim Jamal, George J. Benston, Douglas R. Carmichael, Theodore E. Christensen, Robert H. Colson, Stephen R. Moehrle, Shivaram Rajgopal, Thomas L. Stober, Shyam Sunder and Ross L. Watts
University of Alberta - Department of Accounting, Operations & Information Systems, Emory University - Department of Accounting, City University of New York (CUNY) - Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, University of Georgia - J.M. Tull School of AccountingUniversity of Georgia, Grant Thornton LLP, University of Missouri at Saint Louis - Accounting Area, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation, University of Notre Dame - Department of Accountancy, Yale University - School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Financial Reporting, U.S. GAAP, IFRS, SEC, Reconciliation

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Bank Capital Structure, Regulatory Capital, and Securities Innovations

FRB Atlanta Working Paper 2000-18
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 13 Dec 2000
George J. Benston, Paul J. Irvine, Jim Rosenfeld and Joseph F. Sinkey
Emory University - Department of Accounting, Neeley School of Business, Emory University - Department of Finance and Terry College of Business, The University of Georgia
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Bank capital structure, bank holding companies, regulatory capital, securities innovations, Tier-1 capital, trust-preferred securities

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Bank Capital Structure, Regulatory Capital and Securities' Innovations

EFA 2001 Barcelona Meetings; FRB Atlanta Working Paper Series
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 04 Oct 2000
Paul J. Irvine, George J. Benston, Jim Rosenfeld and Joseph F. Sinkey
Neeley School of Business, Emory University - Department of Accounting, Emory University - Department of Finance and Terry College of Business, The University of Georgia
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Response to FAF Exposure Draft on 'Proposed Changes to Oversight, Structure, and Operations of the FAF, FASB, and GASB'

University of Alberta School of Business Research Paper No. 2013-1010
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2013
George J. Benston, Theodore E. Christensen, Robert H. Colson, Karim Jamal, Stephen R. Moehrle, Shivaram Rajgopal, Thomas L. Stober, Shyam Sunder and Ross L. Watts
Emory University - Department of Accounting, University of Georgia - J.M. Tull School of AccountingUniversity of Georgia, Grant Thornton LLP, University of Alberta - Department of Accounting, Operations & Information Systems, University of Missouri at Saint Louis - Accounting Area, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation, University of Notre Dame - Department of Accountancy, Yale University - School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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FAF, FASB

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Why Effective Spreads on NASDAQ Were Higher than on the New York Stock Exchange in the 1990s

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Why Effective Spreads on NASDAQ Were Higher than on the New York Stock Exchange in the 1990s

University of Memphis Working Paper
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Oct 2003
Robert Wood and George J. Benston
University of Memphis - Fogelman College of Business and Economics and Emory University - Department of Accounting
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Microstructure, day trading, SOES, bid/ask spreads, Nasdaq vs. NYSE

Why Effective Spreads on Nasdaq Were Higher than on the New York Stock Exchange in the 1990s

Journal of Empirical Finance, Forthcoming
Posted: 22 Oct 2006
George J. Benston and Robert Wood
Emory University - Department of Accounting and University of Memphis - Fogelman College of Business and Economics

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Market microstructure, NASDAQ, NYSE, bid-ask spreads, odd-eighth avoidance

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Did NASDAQ Market Makers Successfully Collude to Increase Spreads? A Reexamination of Evidence from Stocks that Moved from NASDAQ to the New York or American Stock Exchanges

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 08 May 2007
George J. Benston
Emory University - Department of Accounting
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NASDAQ, market-maker collusion, even-eights quotes, microstructure, exchange listing

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Entry and Exit of Banks in Latin America and the Caribbean: Public Policy Concerns and a Proposed Solution

IDB Working Paper No. 297, Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-103, Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 11-159
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Apr 2011
George J. Benston
Emory University - Department of Accounting
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Response to FAF Exposure Draft, 'Proposed Changes to Oversight, Structure, and Operations of the FAF, FASB and GASB'

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2009, University of Alberta School of Business Research Paper No. 2013-1024
Posted: 02 Jul 2013
Robert H. Colson, George J. Benston, Douglas R. Carmichael, Theodore E. Christensen, Karim Jamal, Stephen R. Moehrle, Shivaram Rajgopal, Thomas L. Stober, Shyam Sunder and Ross L. Watts
Grant Thornton LLP, Emory University - Department of Accounting, City University of New York (CUNY) - Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, University of Georgia - J.M. Tull School of AccountingUniversity of Georgia, University of Alberta - Department of Accounting, Operations & Information Systems, University of Missouri at Saint Louis - Accounting Area, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation, University of Notre Dame - Department of Accountancy, Yale University - School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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The FASB's Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting: A Critical Analysis by the American Accounting Association's Financial Accounting Standards Committee

University of Alberta School of Business Research Paper No. 2013-1028, Accounting Horizons, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2007
Posted: 02 Jul 2013
George J. Benston, Douglas R. Carmichael, Karim Jamal, Joel S. Demski, Bob Laux, Shivaram Rajgopal, George Vrana and Bala G. Dharan
Emory University - Department of Accounting, City University of New York (CUNY) - Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, University of Alberta - Department of Accounting, Operations & Information Systems, University of Florida - Fisher School of Accounting, Microsoft Corporation, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation, Ernst & Young LLP and Harvard Law School

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FASB, IASB, conceptual framework, accounting standards, financial reporting

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Comments by the American Accounting Association's Financial Accounting Standards Committee on the FASB's 'Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting (Hereafter CF)', Call for Preliminary Views, July 6, 2006

Posted: 07 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2013
George J. Benston, Douglas R. Carmichael, Joel S. Demski, Karim Jamal, Bala G. Dharan, Bob Laux, Shivaram Rajgopal and George Vrana
Emory University - Department of Accounting, City University of New York (CUNY) - Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, University of Florida - Fisher School of Accounting, University of Alberta - Department of Accounting, Operations & Information Systems, Harvard Law School, Microsoft Corporation, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation and Ernst & Young LLP

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What's Special About Banks?

Posted: 25 Jan 2004
George J. Benston
Emory University - Department of Accounting

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Banks, financial intermediaries, bank specialness, bank regulation

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Financial Reporting of Derivatives: An Analysis of the Issues, Evaluation of Proposals, and a Suggested Solution

J. OF FINANCIAL ENGINEERING, Vol. 4 No. 3, September 1995
Posted: 13 Jul 1998
George J. Benston and Shehzad L. Mian
Emory University - Department of Accounting and Emory University - Department of Finance

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