​WFA-CFAR Research Publications

WFA-CFAR is a premier research center that encourages and supports cutting-edge research in finance and accounting. These summations of published articles examine important issues, providing a “sneak peak” to ahead-of-the-curve thinking and practice.

Research on Higher Purpose

On January 23, 2020, WFA-CFAR cohosted a Higher Purpose Conference with the Bauer Leadership Center and Barry Wehmiller. At the time, WashU Olin professors Stuart Bunderson, the George & Carol Bauer Professor of Organizational Ethics & Governance and Director of the Bauer Leadership Center and WFA-CFAR Director Anjan Thakor, the John E. Simon Professor of Finance, were conducting a survey on personal and organizational higher purpose.

Bunderson and Thakor’s Personal and Organizational Higher Purpose survey findings (PDF), published in July 2020, were the topic of an article in the Harvard Business Review “Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization” by Thakor and Robert E. Quinn, a professor emeritus at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and a cofounder of the Center for Positive Organizations. In May 2020, Quinn and Thakor were guests on the Everybody Matters Podcast: Higher Purpose Series.

Accounting and Finance Research

Read our See Far research summary publication:

• 2020 issue
• 2019 issue
  
• 2018 issue
• 2017 issue
• 2016 issue
• 2015 issue
  

WFA-CFAR accounting researchers specialize in Reporting Choice/Valuation, Corporate Governance/Investor Relations, and Managerial Accounting.

• How an Increase in Business Risk Affects the Design of Managerial Compensation and its Managers' Actions
• Does Information Flow Over the Walls within Large Banking Conglomerates? (pdf)
  

WFA-CFAR finance researchers specialize in Asset Pricing, Corporate Financing, and Market Microstructure.

• Enterprise Risk Management: A Tail-Risk Perspective (pdf)
• Taking a Run at the Wall Street Walk (pdf)
• Establishing an Executive Pay Duration Measure to Align with the Interests of Shareholders (pdf)