Alison Kirby Jones

Education

• PhD, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, 1986
• BCA, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 1979
• BA, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 1978
• Bachelor of Commerce and Administration, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 1978

Academic Positions

• 1994 - current Associate Professor, Boston University Questrom School of Business.
• 1985 - 1994 Assistant Professor, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
• 1989 - 1990 Visiting Assistant Professor, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA.
• 1979 - 1980 Lecturer, Accountancy Department, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Selected Publications

• Kirby Jones, A., Nitkin, M. (2009). "Leveraging Spreadsheets to Learn the Mechanics of Accounting", The Accounting Educator's Journal, 19 161-173
• Kirby, A. (2004). "The product market opportunity loss of mandated disclosure", Information Economics and Policy, 16 (4), 553-577
• Kirby, A. (2004). "Discussion—Information Externalities, Underinvestment, and Organizational Remedies", Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, 19 (4), 457-462
• Kirby, A. (2001). "International competitive effects of harmonization", The International Journal of Accounting, 36 (1), 1-32
• Kirby Jones, A., Hwang, Y. (2000). "Competitive Effects of Disclosure in a Strategic Entry Model", Review of Accounting Studies, 5 (1)
• Kirby, A. (1993). "Optimal information exchange", Information Economics and Policy, 5 (1), 5-29
• KIRBY, A. (1992). "Incentive compensation schemes: Experimental calibration of the rationality hypothesis", Contemporary Accounting Research, 8 (2), 374-408
• Kirby, A., Reichelstein, S., Sen, P., Paik, T. (1991). "Participation, Slack, and Budget-Based Performance Evaluation", Journal of Accounting Research, 29 (1), 109-109
• Kirby, A. (1988). "Trade Associations as Information Exchange Mechanisms", The RAND Journal of Economics, 19 (1), 138-138
• Kirby, A. (1987). "Discussion of Centralization Versus Delegation and the Value of Communication", Journal of Accounting Research, 25 19-19

Awards And Honors

• 2015, Broderick Prize for Faculty Contribution to the Graduate Program (2015)