Brian Akins

Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business

Assistant Professor

6100 South Main Street

P.O. Box 1892

Houston, TX 77005-1892

United States

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Scholarly Papers (7)

Investor Competition Over Information and the Pricing of Information Asymmetry

The Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2013
Brian Akins, Jeffrey Ng and Rodrigo S. Verdi
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Information Risk, Information Quality, Asset Pricing

Investor Competition Over Information and the Pricing of Information Asymmetry

Accounting Review, Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 35-58, 2012
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 07 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2013
Brian Akins, Jeffrey Ng and Rodrigo S. Verdi
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Information Risk, Information Quality, Asset Pricing

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Bank Competition and Financial Stability: Evidence from the Financial Crisis

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 51(1), (2016), 1-28., Boston U. School of Management Research Paper No. 2423584, Singapore Management University School of Accountancy Research Paper No. 2014-17
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 12 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2016
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Boston University - Questrom School of Business, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and Hong Kong Polytechnic University - School of Accounting and Finance
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competition, risk-taking, bank regulation, bank failure

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Financial Reporting Quality and Uncertainty About Credit Risk Among the Credit Ratings Agencies

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 08 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2017
Brian Akins
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Financial reporting quality, credit ratings, uncertainty, SFAS 131

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The Salience of Creditors' Interests and CEO Compensation

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 15 May 2017 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2019
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Appalachian State University - Walker College of Business, University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business and University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business
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CEO Compensation, Creditors' Interests, Debt Contracting

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Debt Contracting on Management

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 02 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2019
Brian Akins, David De Angelis and Maclean Gaulin
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business and University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business
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Debt Contracting, Human Capital, CEO Turnover

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Corruption in Bank Lending: The Role of Timely Loan Loss Recognition

Journal of Accounting and Economics, 63 (2–3), (2017), 454-478.
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 13 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 12 May 2019
Brian Akins, Yiwei Dou and Jeffrey Ng
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting and The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics
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Timeliness, Loan Loss Recognition, Corruption, Banks

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Blocking Block-Formation: Evidence from Private Loan Contracts

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 10 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2023
Brian Akins, David De Angelis and Rustam Zufarov
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business and University of Illinois at Chicago
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Equity Block Formation, Change in Control, Debt Contracting