Brian  Cadman
  • Full Professor, Accounting Department
  • Department Chair, Accounting Department
  • Professor, Accounting Department

Research Statement

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

1.         “The Incentives of Compensation Consultants and CEO Pay” (with Mary Ellen Carter and Stephen Hillegeist). 2010. Journal of Accounting and Economics 49(3): 263-280.

 

2.         “Determinants of CEO Pay: A Comparison of ExecuComp and Non-ExecuComp Firms ,” (with Sandy Klasa and Steve Matsunaga). 2010. The Accounting Review 85(5): 1511-1543.

 

3.         “Executive Compensation Restrictions: Do They Restrict Firms’ Willingness to Participate in TARP?” (with Mary Ellen Carter and Luann Lynch). 2012. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting 39(7): 997-1027.

 

4.         “Stock Option Grant Vesting Terms: Economic and Financial Reporting Determinants” (with Jayanthi Sunder and Tjomme Rusticus). 2013. Review of Accounting Studies. 18:1159-1190

 

5.         “Executive Equity Divestitures and Equity Granting Patterns”.  2013. Journal of Management Accounting Research, 25: 1-24. Presented at JMAR Conference 

 

6.         “Compensation Peer Groups and their Relation with CEO Pay” (with Mary Ellen Carter). 2013. Journal of Management Accounting Research 26: 57-82.

 

7.         “Economic determinants and information environment effects of earnouts: New insights from SFAS 141 (R)” (with Richard Carrizosa and Lucile Faurel). 2014. Journal of Accounting Research 52(1): 37-74.

 

8.         “Investor Horizon and CEO Horizon Incentives” (with Jayanthi Sunder). 2014. The Accounting Review 89(4): 1299-1328.

 

9.         “Group judgment and advice-taking: The social context underlying CEO compensation decisions.” (with Bryan Bonner). 2014. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice 18: 302-318.

 

10.      “The Role of Defined Benefit Pension Plans in Executive Compensation” (with Linda Vincent) 2014. European Accounting Review 24(4): 779-800.

 

11.      “Are Ex-Ante CEO Severance Pay Contracts Consistent with Efficient Contracting?” (with John Campbell and Sandy Klasa). 2016. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 51(3): 737-769.

 

12.      “Inducement Grants, Hiring Announcements and Adverse Selection for New CEOs” (with Richard Carrizosa and Xiaoxia Peng). 2020. Review of Accounting Studies 25, 279-312.

 

13.      “Compensation disclosures and corporate governance through shareholder voting” (with Richard Carrizosa and Xiaoxia Peng). 2019. Journal of Management Accounting Research, In Press.

 

14.      "The Participation Constraint and CEO Equity Grants" (with Mary Ellen Carter and Xiaoxia Peng). 2020. The Accounting Review, In Press.

Presentations

  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2023) McGill University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/26/2023.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2023) Virginia Tech. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/07/2023.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2022) Tilburg Mini Conference . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/20/2022.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2022) Erasmus University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/18/2022.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2022) University of Illinois Chicago. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/01/2022.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2022) Minnesota Empirical Conference. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/21/2022.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2022) University of Iowa. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/30/2022.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2019) University of Colorado. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/2019.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2019) European Institute of Advanced Studies in Management Conference Plenary Session. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/2019.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2019) University of Nebraska. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/2019.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2018) Emory University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/19/2018.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2018) Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/17/2018.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2018) Arizona State University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/18/2018.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2017) Duke University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2017.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2017) Temple University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2017.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2017) The Ohio State University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/2017.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2017) Harvard IMO Conference. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2017.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2017) University of Amsterdam. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/2017.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2017) Maastricht University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/2017.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2017) University of Nevada Las Vegas. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/01/2017.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2016) Boston University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/2016.
  • BRIAN D CADMAN (2015) National Taiwan University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/15/2015.

Publications

  • Brian Cadman & Richard Carrizosa (2024). Executive Equity Compensation Plans and Board of Director Discretion over Equity Grants. Journal of Accounting Research. Discipline based - refereed, Accepted, 01/20/2024.
  • Brian Cadman, John Campbell & Ryan Grant (2023). Macroeconomic uncertainty and executive compensation schemes. The Accounting Review. Discipline based - refereed, Accepted, 12/05/2023.
  • Brian Cadman & Elia Ferracuti (2023). Cost Structure and the Usefulness of Earnings. Management Science. Discipline based - refereed, Accepted, 11/15/2023.
  • Brian Cadman, Mirko Heinle & Daniele Macciocchi (2022). Investor Horizon and Commitment to Disclosure. The Accounting Review. Discipline based - refereed, Published, 11/09/2022.
    https://doi.org/10.2308/TAR-2019-0391
  • “Compensation disclosures and corporate governance through shareholder voting” (with Richard Carrizosa and Xiaoxia Peng). Discipline based - refereed, Accepted, 11/2019.
  • Brian Cadman, John Campbell & Sandy Klasa (2016). Are Ex-Ante CEO Severance Pay Contracts Consistent with Efficient Contracting. The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Vol. 51(3), 737-769. Discipline based - refereed, Published, 07/2016.
  • Brian Cadman & Linda Vincent (2014). The Role of Defined benefit pension Plans in Executive Compensation. European Accounting Review. Vol. 24(4), 779-800. Discipline based - refereed, Published, 08/2014.
  • "Advice-taking and group judgment: The effects of the social context underlying executive compensation decision" 2014. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice 18: 302-318. Published, 08/2014.
  • “Investor Horizon and CEO Horizon Incentives” 2014. The Accounting Review 89(4): 1299-1328. Published, 07/2014.
  • Brian Cadman & Mary Ellen Carter (2014). Compensation Peer Groups and their Relation with CEO Pay. Journal of Management Accounting Research. Discipline based - refereed, Published, 03/2014.
  • Cadman, B., 2013. “Executive Equity Divestitures and Equity Granting Patterns”. The Journal of Management Accounting Research. Published, 12/01/2013.
  • Brian Cadman, Mary Ellen Carter & Luann Lynch (2012). Executive Compensation Restrictions: Do They Restrict Firms’ Willingness to Participate in TARP?. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. Vol. 39, 997-1027. Discipline based - refereed, Published, 08/2012.
  • Cadman, B., & Mary Ellen Carter and Stephen Hillegeist. (2010). The Incentives of Compensation Consultants and CEO Pay . Journal of Accounting and Economics. Discipline based - refereed, Published, 04/2010.
    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id...
  • Brian Cadman, Sandy Klasa & Steve Matsunaga (2010). Determinants of CEO pay: a comparison of ExecuComp and non-ExecuComp firms. The Accounting Review. Vol. 85(5), 1511-1543. Discipline based - refereed, Published, 02/2010.
    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id...