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Steven Matsunaga

Professor Emerit of Accounting

Affiliations: Accounting, Cameron Center for Finance and Securities Analysis
Phone: 541-346-3340
Office: Lillis 375

About

Biography:

Steven Matsunaga is a Professor Emerit of Accounting at the Lundquist College of Business. His expertise includes corporate governance and managerial incentives. His teaching interests include introductory and intermediate financial accounting. His research has been published in The Accounting Review, Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Accounting Research, and Journal of Accounting and Economics.

Matsunaga received his PhD from the University of Washington. Prior to his academic career, Matsunaga was a senior accountant at Deloitte Haskins and Sells in San Francisco. He also received the Competitive Manuscript Award from the American Accounting Association and American Taxation Association twice.

Degree History:
  • PhD, University of Washington, 1992
  • MBA, College of William and Mary, 1984
  • BA, San Francisco State University, 1979
Honors and Awards:
  • Outstanding Manuscript Award (for "Disqualifying Dispositions of Incentive Stock Options: Tax Benefits vs. Financial Reporting Costs," with Terry Shevlin and D. Shores), American Taxation Association, 1995
  • Competitive Manuscript Award (for "The Effects of Financial Reporting Costs on the Use of Employee Stock Options,"), American Accounting Association, 1994

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Areas of Expertise

  • Corporate governance
  • Managerial incentives
  • Financial disclosure

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Publications

Journal Articles:

Huang, Jing, Steven Matsunaga, and Z. Jay Wang. "The Role of Pension Business Benefits in Institutional Block Ownership and Corporate Governance." Contemporary Accounting Research 37, no. 4: 1959-1989. https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12587.

December 2020

Matsunaga, Steven, David Guenther, and Brian Williams. "Is Tax Avoidance Related to Firm Risk?" The Accounting Review 92, no. 1: 115-136. https://doi.org/10.2308/accr-51408.

January 2017

Hui, Kai Wai, and Steven R. Matsunaga. "Are CEOs and CFOs Rewarded for Disclosure Quality?" The Accounting Review 90, no. 3: 1013-1047. https://doi.org/10.2308/accr-50885.

May 2015

Lee, Sam, Steven R. Matsunaga, and Chul W. Park. "Management Forecast Accuracy and CEO Turnover." The Accounting Review 87, no. 6: 2095-2122. https://doi.org/10.2308/accr-50220.

November 2012

Gore, Angela K., Steven Matsunaga, and P. Eric Yeung. "The Role of Technical Expertise in Firm Governance Structure: Evidence from Chief Financial Officer Contractual Incentives." Strategic Management Journal 32, no. 7: 771-786. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.907.

July 2011

Hui, Kai Wai, Steven Matsunaga, and Dale Morse. "The Impact of Conservatism on Management Quantitative Earnings Forecasts." Journal of Accounting and Economics 47, no. 3: 192-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2009.01.001.

June 2009

Jagolinzer, Alan D., Steven R. Matsunaga, and P. Eric Yeung. "An Analysis of Insiders' Use of Prepaid Variable Forward Transactions." Journal of Accounting Research 45, no. 4: 1055-1079. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-679X.2007.00260.x.

December 2007

Matsunaga, Steven R., and Chul W. Park. "The Effect of Missing a Quarterly Earnings Benchmark on the CEO’s Annual Bonus." The Accounting Review 76, no. 3: 313-332. https://doi.org/10.2308/accr.2001.76.3.313.

July 2001

Hemmer, Thomas, Steven Matsunaga, and Terry Shevlin. "Reload Employee Stock Option Plans: Incentive Alignment of Rent Extraction." Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance 15, no. 4: 393-423. https://doi.org/10.1177/0148558X0001500402.

October 2000

Hemmer, Thomas, Steven Matsunaga, and Terry Shevlin. "Optimal Exercise and the Cost of Granting Employee Stock options with a Reload Provision." Journal of Accounting Research 36, no. 2: 231-255. https://doi.org/10.2307/2491476.

October 1998

Hemmer, Thomas, Steven Matsunaga, and Terry Shevlin. "The Influence of Risk Diversification on the Early Exercise of Employee Stock Options by Executive Officers." Journal of Accounting and Economics 21, no. 1: 45-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-4101(95)00411-4.

February 1996

Matsunaga, Steven R. "The Effects of Financial Reporting Costs on the Use of Employee Stock Options." The Accounting Review 70, no. 1: 1-26.

January 1995

Matsunaga, Steven, Terry Shevlin, and D. Shores. "Disqualifying Dispositions of Incentive Stock Options: Tax Benefits vs. Financial Reporting Costs." Journal of Accounting Research Supplement 30: 37-68. https://doi.org/10.2307/2491192.

January 1992

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