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Laura Wellman
Tykeson Associate Professor of Accounting | Stewart Distinguished Faculty
Affiliations: Accounting
Email: wellman@uoregon.edu
Office: Lillis 385
Journal Articles:
Robinson, Scott A., Jonathan L. Rogers, A. Nicole Skinner, and Laura A. Wellman. "Environmental Disclosures and ESG Fund Ownership." Contemporary Accounting Research, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.13074.
August 2025
Christensen, Dane M., Hengda Jin, Joshua A. Lee, Suhas A. Sridharan, and Laura A. Wellman. "Corporate Political Activism and Information Transfers." The Accounting Review 99, no. 3: 87-113. https://doi.org/10.2308/TAR-2021-0254.
May 2024
Christensen, Dane M., Arthur Morris, Beverly R. Walther, and Laura A. Wellman. "Political Information Flow and Management Guidance." Review of Accounting Studies 28, no. 3: 1466-1499. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-022-09671-7.
September 2023
Brown, Jennifer L., K.C. Lin, Jared A. Moore, and Laura A. Wellman. "The Impact of Tax Policy Uncertainty on Forecasting." Journal of the American Taxation Association 44, no. 2: 7-33. https://doi.org/10.2308/JATA-19-014.
September 2022
Christensen, Dane M., Hengda Jin, Suhas A. Sridharan, and Laura A. Wellman. "Hedging on the Hill: Does Political Hedging Reduce Firm Risk?" Management Science 68, no. 6: 4356-4379. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.4050.
June 2022
Pawliczek, Andrea, A. Nicole Skinner, and Laura A. Wellman. "A New Take on Voice: The Influence of Blackrock's 'Dear Ceo' Letters." Review of Accounting Studies 26, no. 3: 1088-1136. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-021-09603-x.
September 2021
Stephan, Andrew P., Beverly R. Walther, and Laura A. Wellman. "Profiting from Connections: Do Politicians Receive Stock Tips from Brokerage Houses?" Journal of Accounting and Economics 72, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2021.101401.
August 2021
Nagar, Venky, Jordan Schoenfeld, and Laura Wellman. "The Effect of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Investor Information Asymmetry and Management Disclosures." Journal of Accounting and Economics 67, no. 1: 36-57 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2018.08.011.
February 2019
Christensen, Dane M., Michael B. Mikhail, Beverly R. Walther, and Laura A. Wellman. "From K Street to Wall Street: Political Connections and Stock Recommendations." The Accounting Review 92, no. 3: 87-112. https://doi.org/10.2308/accr-51550.
May 2017
Wellman, Laura. "Mitigating Political Uncertainty." Review of Accounting Studies 22, no. 1: 217-250. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-016-9380-0.
March 2017
Brown, Jennifer L., Katharine Drake, and Laura Wellman. "The Benefits of a Relational Approach to Corporate Political Activity: Evidence from Political Contributions to Tax Policymakers." Journal of the American Taxation Association (American Accounting Association) 37, no. 1: 69-102. https://doi.org/10.2308/atax-50908.
April 2015
The Lundquist College of Business has named Laura Wellman, the Tykeson Associate Professor of Accounting, as the 2026 recipient of its prestigious Stewart Distinguished Faculty Award.
Research by UO accounting professors Laura Wellman and Dane Christensen explored communication between politicians and firms.