Marcus Kirk

Marcus Kirk

  • Associate Professor

Location

  • Warrington College of Business
  • Fisher School of Accounting
  • Gerson Hall 318
CV

Expertise and interest areas

  • Accounting within an Economy’s Institutional Infrastructure
  • Financial Markets and Institutions
  • Financial Reporting and Disclosure Choices
  • Investor Relations
  • Valuation

News

  • A Year to Remember – November 17, 2016 – The 2015-16 academic year was an eventful one for accounting professor Dr. Marcus Kirk. He was promoted to Associate Professor, and was named to Poets…

  • Accounting professor named to Poets & Quants’s 40 Under 40 List – April 14, 2016 – Dr. Marcus Kirk, the Luciano Prida Sr. Term Assistant Professor at the Fisher School of Accounting, was recognized by Poets & Quants in its 2016…

Courses taught

  • Advanced DBA Research (ACG7978)
  • DBA Doctoral Dissertation/Defense (ACG7985)
  • Financial Accounting (ACG5025)
  • Financial Accounting and Reporting 2 (ACG4111)
  • Financial Reporting and Analysis (ACG6175)
  • Overview of Accounting Research (ACG7885)
  • Special Topics in Accounting (ACG6935)
  • Theoretical Constructs in Accounting (ACG7939)

Education

  • PhD – Accounting, Emory University, 2009
  • BCom – Commerce, University of Victoria, 2001

PhD students advised

  • Matthew Rathbun — 2025 — Current
  • David Fraser — 2022 — 2024
  • Zhenhao Piao — 2021 — 2022

Professional service

  • Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Contemporary Accounting Research — 2009 to Present
  • Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, European Accounting Review — 2016 to Present
  • Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Journal of Accounting Literature — 2012 to Present
  • Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Journal of Business, Finance, and Accounting — 2014 to Present
  • Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Journal of Corporate Finance — 2015 to Present
  • Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Management Science — 2015 to Present
  • Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Review of Accounting Studies — 2016 to Present
  • Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, The Accounting Review — 2012 to Present
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Accounting Review — 2020 to Present
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Contemporary Accounting Research — 2020 to Present
  • Associate Editor, Accounting Horizons — 2024 to 2027

Journal article publications

  • Abnormal institutional ownership and expected returns
    • Status: Accepted
    • Journal: Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance
    • Accepted Year: 2025
    • Author: Marcus Kirk
  • Investor-Firm Private Interactions and Informed Trading: Evidence from NYC Taxi Patterns
    • Status: Accepted
    • Journal: Review of Accounting Studies
    • Published Year: 2024
    • Authors: Marcus Kirk, Zhenhao Piao
  • The promised and perils of AI in disclosure
    • Status: 1st Revise and Resubmit
    • Journal: Accounting Horizons
    • Authors: Marcus Kirk, Peter Molk, Evan Pondel
  • Concurrent Earnings Announcements and Analysts’ Information Production
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: Accounting Review
    • Published Year: 2020
    • Authors: Matthew Driskill, Marcus Kirk, Jennifer Tucker