Publications

Research

  • Nisan Langberg and K. Sivaramakrishnan (2010). Voluntary Disclosures and Analyst Feedback, Journal of Accounting Research, 48: 603-645.
  • Lu, Tong and K. Sivaramakrishnan (2009). Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation: Fresh Look versus Poor Knowledge. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 28: 71-91.
  • Byunghwan Lee, John O’Brien and K. Sivaramakrishnan (2007). An analysis of Financial Analysts’ Optimism in Long-term Growth Forecasts. Journal of Behavioral Finance, 9: 171-184.
  • Anand Gopal and K. Sivaramakrishnan (2008). On Vendor Preferences for Contract Types in Offshore Software Projects: The Case of Fixed Price vs. Time and Materials Contracts. Information Systems Research, 19: 202-220.
  • Nisan Langberg and K. Sivaramakrishnan (2008). Voluntary Disclosures and Information Production by Analysts. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 46: 78-100.
  • Praveen Kumar and K. Sivaramakrishnan (2008). Who Monitors the Monitor: The Effect of Board Independence on Executive Compensation and Firm Value. Review of Financial Studies, 21: 1371-1401.
  • Ramji Balakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan and Shyam Sunder (2004). A Resource Granularity Framework for Estimating Opportunity Costs. The Accounting Horizons, 18(3), 197-206.
  • Ramji Balakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan, and K. Surysekar (2004). Short-term Contracts, Long-term Actions, and Information System Design. Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, 19(2), 117-140.
  • Gopal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, M.S. Krishnan, and T. Mukhopadhyay (2003).  Contracts in Off-shore Software Development: An Empirical Analysis. Management Science,49(12), 1671-1683.
  • Lynn Rees and K. Sivaramakrishnan (2007). The Effect of Meeting or Beating Revenue Forecasts on the Association Between Quarterly Returns and Earnings Forecast Errors. Contemporary Accounting Research, 24 (Spring): 259-290.
  • Ramji Balakrishnan and K. Sivaramakrishnan (2003). On the Value of Public Pre-decision Information in Principal-Agent Models. Indian Accounting Review, 7(2), 1-17.
  • Ramji Balakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan and Shyam Sunder. Is the Opportunity Cost of Idle Capacity Zero? Coase (1938) Versus Managerial Accounting Circa 2002, Indian Accounting Review, 6(1), 13-26.
  • Ramji Balakrishnan and K. Sivaramakrishnan (2002). A Critical Overview of the Use of Full Cost Data for Planning and Pricing: Journal of Management Accounting Research, Winter 2002. (Best paper award in Journal of Management Accounting Research).
  • Ramji Balakrishnan and K Sivaramakrishnan (2000). Sequential Solutions to Capacity Planning and Pricing Decisions, Contemporary Accounting Research, 18(1), 1-26.
  • Anil Arya, John Fellingham, Jonathan Glover and K. Sivaramakrishnan (2000). Capital Budgeting, the Hold-up Problem and Information System Design. Management Science,46(2),205-216.
  • Ramji Balakrishnan, Nandu J. Nagarajan and K. Sivaramakrishnan (1999). The Effect of Property Rights and Audit Information Quality on Team Incentives for Inventory Reduction. Management Science, 44(9), 1193-1204.
  • Somnath Das, Carolyn Levine,  and K. Sivaramakrishnan (1998). Earnings Predictability and Bias in Analysts' Earnings Forecasts. The Accounting Review, 73, 277-294.
  • Bala V. Balachandran, Ramji Balakrishnan and K. Sivaramakrishnan (1997). On the Efficiency of Cost-Based Decision Rules for Capacity Planning. The Accounting Review, 72, 599-619.
  • Bala V. Balachandran, Ramji Balakrishnan and K. Sivaramakrishnan (1997). Capacity Planning with Demand Uncertainty. Engineering Economist,97, 49-72.
  • Anil Arya, Jonathan Glover and K. Sivaramakrishnan (1997). Commitment Issues in Budgeting. Journal of Accounting Research, 35, 273-278.
  • Anil Arya, Jonathan Glover and K. Sivaramakrishnan (1997). The Interaction between Decision and Control Problems and the Value of Information. The Accounting Review, 72, 561-574.
  • Ramji Balakrishnan and K. Sivaramakrishnan (1996). Is Assigning Capacity Costs to Individual Products Necessary for Capacity Planning? Accounting Horizons, 10(3), 1-11.
  • John R. O’Brien and K. Sivaramakrishnan (1996). Coordination of Order Processing and Production Scheduling in Order-Initiated Production Environments. Journal of Management Accounting Research, 8, 151-170.
  • Sok-Hyon Kang and K. Sivaramakrishnan (1995). Issues in Testing Earnings Management and an Instrumental Variable Approach. Journal of Accounting Research, 33, 353-367.
  • Nandu J. Nagarajan, Sri Sridharan and K. Sivaramakrishnan (1995). Managerial Entrenchment, Reputation, and Corporate Investment Myopia. The Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, 10, 565-585.
  • John R. O’Brien and K. Sivaramakrishnan (1994). Accounting for JIT: A Cycle Time Based Approach. Journal of Cost Management, 8, 63-70. Also appeared in Emerging Practices in Cost Management, 1996, edited by Barry J. Brinker (editor of the Journal of Cost Management), published by Warren, Gorham and Lamont.
  • Sivaramakrishnan, K. (1994). Information Asymmetry, Participation and Long Term Contracts. Management Science, 40, 1228-1244.
  • Sok-Hyon Kang, John R. O’Brien and K. Sivaramakrishnan (1994). Analysts' Interim Earnings Forecasts - Evidence on Forecast Bias. Journal of Accounting Research, 32, 103-112.
  • Stanley Baiman and K. Sivaramakrishnan (1991). The Value of Private Pre-decision Information in a Principal Agent Context. The Accounting Review, 66, 747-766.
  • Thomas Lys and K. Sivaramakrishnan (1988). Earnings Expectations and Capital Restructuring - The Case of Equity for Debt Swaps. Journal of Accounting Research, 26, 273-299.

 

 

K. Sivaramakrishnan (Shiva)

Contact Information

Department of Accountancy and Taxation
C.T. Bauer College of Business
334 Melcher Hall
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204
Shiva@uh.edu