Issue Information ‐ Request for Papers

• Published date: 01 September 2021
• Date: 01 September 2021
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/1475-679X.12319

REQUEST FOR PAPERS

57th Annual (2022) JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING

RESEARCH CONFERENCE

Current Topics in Accounting Research &

the Economics of Sustainability Reporting

The 2022 Journal of Accounting Research conference will be held at the University of

Chicago Booth School of Business on May 6–7, 2022. Funding for the conference is

generously provided by the KPMG Foundation, in conjunction with the Accounting

Research Center at Chicago Booth.

To encourage a broad set of submissions, the 2022 conference is open to submis-

sions of theoretical, empirical, and experimental studies that advance our under-

standing of any area or topic of accounting research.

In addition, we are particularly interested in studies that examine ESG (CSR or

sustainability) reporting issues including:

rMandatory ESG reporting

rRole of ESG disclosures in investor or other stakeholder decision making

rHarmonization of ESG reporting across firms, countries and regions

rRole of standard setting bodies (and their political economy)

rRole of audit committees and external auditors or assurance providers

rEnforcement of sustainability reporting standards

rMateriality of ESG factors and sustainability issues for corporate reporting as

well as materiality concepts

rReal effects of ESG disclosures and sustainability reporting

rUse of ESG reports for performance evaluation and compensation.

As is traditionally the case with the Journal of Accounting Research conference, pa-

pers selected for inclusion in the conference are published in the annual confer-

ence issue in the spring of the year following the conference (the inclusion of con-

ference papers in the conference issue is, as always, subject to satisfactory resolution

of the editorial review process). Conference submissions will be considered for both

inclusion in the conference and the journal at the same time.

Papers should be submitted electronically through the links provided on the Jour-

nal of Accounting Research web site. The submission fee is $500.00. The deadline for

submission of papers is December 1, 2021.