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"PhD school (accounting)" that's an interesting choice. What kind of research or work does she do?

• enjo 16y ago
  She studies behavioral accounting issues. Her dissertation was on the effect of internet stock message boards and their influence on investor decision making. In her case she overlaps very heavily with behavioral economics (think freakonomics, predictably irrational, etc...). It can be pretty amusing watching these academics fight over what is in the realm of behavioral accounting and what is within economics. No one really knows;) There is a capital markets side of accounting research which is much more focused on the analysis of accounting in the wild. It is hard to sort of put your finger on what accounting research is. It does exist tho:)
  • pjscott 16y ago
    > It can be pretty amusing watching these academics fight over what is in the realm of behavioral accounting and what is within economics. No one really knows;) If they have to argue about this, then they've probably drawn the dividing lines between their categories wrong, and they're trying to shoehorn new ideas into an ill-fitting taxonomy rather than making the taxonomy accurate. (Related: where the hell does computer science fit? Is it a science, or a branch of applied math, or a craft, or an engineering discipline? Or perhaps an exotic species of potato? Sometimes I think we need the ghost of Alfred Korzybski to rise from the grave and harangue people.)