Biography
My primary research interest is understanding investor behavior. I have written papers focused on how investors respond to corporate apologies after organizational crises as well as papers about how emotions influence investment activity as well as information search and processing behavior. My other research interests include understanding behavior in other domains such as when individuals are more or less likely to misreport information.
Published Research
Bable, J., Wong, C., & Wynes, M. (2025). The Decision Usefulness of CECL: Users’ and Preparers’ Views about the Current Expected Credit Losses Model. Behavioral Research in Accounting, Forthcoming.
Wynes, M. (2025). Earnings Disclosures and Investor Judgments: The Joint Effect of Incidental Affect, Earnings Valence, and Emotion-understanding Ability. Accounting Perspectives. Forthcoming.
Wynes, M. (2022) "Just Say You're Sorry": Avoidance and Revenge Behavior in Response to Organizations Apologizing for Fraud. Journal of Business Ethics 178 (1), 129-151.
Smith, J. & Wynes, M. (2022) Explaining Investors’ Fixation on Increasing Revenue: An Experimental Investigation of the Differential Reaction to Revenues Versus Expenses. Accounting Perspectives 21 (1), 7-30.
Wynes, M. (2021) Anger, Fear, and Investor’s Information Search Behavior. Journal of Behavioral Finance 22 (4), 403-419.
Murphy, P., Wynes, M., Hahn, T., & Devine, P. (2020). Why are People Honest? Internal and External Motivations to Report Honestly. Contemporary Accounting Research 37 (2), 945-981.
Racine, M., Wilson, C., & Wynes, M. (2020). The Value of Apology: Stock Market Reactions to Organizational Crises and the Moderating Effect of Apology. Journal of Business Ethics 163 (3), 485-505.
Teaching
COMM 321 - Corporate Financial Reporting I (undergraduate)
MPAC 837 - Advanced Finance (graduate)