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Bryce Schonberger - Academic Research Articles and Materials

Research Interests:

Voluntary disclosure; causal inference; accounting information at the macroeconomic level; financial reporting quality; accounting information and asset prices/volatility; compensation; networks

Publications:

Fox, Z. D., J. Kim, and B. Schonberger (2026). "Investment Opportunities, Market Feedback, and Voluntary Disclosure: Evidence from the Shale Oil Revolution." The Accounting Review.

Kothari, S. P., B. Schonberger, C. Wasley, and J. Xiao (2025). "Illustrating the First Half-Century of Empirical Capital Markets Research in Accounting in Pictures." Review of Accounting Studies 30: 3111-3176. (Available for free download here: )��

• Supplemental Appendix available here
• Excel file containing time-series data for each variable and dynamic plots available here

Kim, J., B. Schonberger, C. Wasley, and Y. J. Yang (2024). “Forecasting Market Volatility: The Role of Earnings Announcements.” The Accounting Review 99 (4): 251–279.

Dambra, M., B. Schonberger, and C. Wasley (2024). “Creating Visibility: Voluntary Disclosure by Private Firms Pursuing an Initial Public Offering.” Review of Accounting Studies 29: 2468-2517. . (Available for free download here: )

Glaeser, S., B. Schonberger, C. Wasley, and J. Xiao (2023). “Private Information Acquisition via FOIA Requests Made to the SEC.” The Accounting Review 98 (3): 229-255.  

Chang, W., M. Dambra, B. Schonberger, and I. Suk (2023). “Does Sensationalism Affect Executive Compensation? Evidence from Pay Ratio Disclosure Reform.” Journal of Accounting Research 61 (1): 187-242.

• Best Paper Award - Leeds School of Business’ Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility

McMullin, J. and B. Schonberger (2022). “When Good Balance Goes Bad: A Discussion of Common Pitfalls When Using Entropy Balancing.” Journal of Financial Reporting 7 (1): 167 – 196.

Kim, J., B. Schonberger, C. Wasley, and H. Land (2020). Intertemporal Variation in the Information Content of Aggregate Earnings and its Effect on the Aggregate Earnings-Return Relation. Review of Accounting Studies 25: 1410-43.

McMullin, J. and B. Schonberger (2020). “Entropy-balanced accruals.” Review of Accounting Studies 25: 84-119.

Jayaraman, S., B. Schonberger, and J. S. Wu (2019). “Good buffer, bad buffer: Smoothing in banks’ loan loss provisions and the response to credit supply shocks.” Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting 4 (2): 183-238.

Working Papers:

Demerjian, P., Y. Ertimur, and B. Schonberger. Public Disclosure Around Confidentially-Marketed Public Offerings. Available at SSRN:

Demerjian, P., S. Mookerjee, and B. Schonberger. Litigation Risk and the Mapping Between Disclosures and the Information Environment: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach. Available at SSRN:

Dambra, M., A. Pawliczek, and B. Schonberger. From Restatement Risk to Reporting Rigor: Evidence from the SEC's Clawback Mandate. Available at SSRN:

Fox, Z. D., J. Kim, B. Schonberger, and L. Wellman. Politically-Informed Trading and Managerial Learning.

McMullin, J. and B. Schonberger. Cross-Firm Information Transfers During Earnings Season: A Network Approach.