Kristy L. Towry

Emory University — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

22h-index2.4kcitations54works1.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies(44), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics(14), Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance(10), Auction Theory and Applications(10), Accounting and Organizational Management(7)

Publications54 total

Un-Nudging Pay Gaps: The Role of Pay Raise Budget Framing
The Accounting Review·2025Open Access
Reciprocity over time: Do employees respond more to kind or unkind controls?
Contemporary Accounting Research·2025· 1 cited
Decoding effort: Toward a measure – and a better understanding – of effort intensity in accounting research
Management Accounting Research·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Reciprocity over time: Do employees respond more to kind or unkind controls?
Harvard Dataverse·2023Open Access
Timing is Everything: Congruence, Controllability, and Performance Measure Weighting
Harvard Dataverse·2023Open Access
Mitigating the Gender Pay Gap: The Role of Pay Raise Budget Framing
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023Open Access
Reciprocity Over Time: Do Employees Respond More to Kind or Unkind Controls?
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Ambiguous Sticks and Carrots: The Effect of Contract Framing and Payoff Ambiguity on Employee Effort
The Accounting Review·2022· 12 cited
The Impact of Knowledge Transfer on Investment in Knowledge Creation in Firms†‡
Contemporary Accounting Research·2021· 8 cited
Leading by Example in Socially Driven Organizations: The Effect of Transparent Leader Compensation Contracts on Following
The Accounting Review·2021· 20 cited
Ambiguous Sticks and Carrots: The Effect of Contract Framing and Payoff Ambiguity on Employee Effort
SSRN Electronic Journal·2021· 2 citedOpen Access
Bring the Noise, But Not the Funk: Does the Effect of Performance Measure Noise on Learning Depend on Whether the Learning is Experiential or Vicarious?
The Accounting Review·2019· 12 cited
Leading by Example: The Effect of the Leader's Compensation Contract on Following
SSRN Electronic Journal·2018Open Access
Bring the Noise, But Not the Funk: Does the Effect of Performance Measure Noise on Learning Depend on Whether the Learning is Experiential or Vicarious?
SSRN Electronic Journal·2017· 2 citedOpen Access
Vicarious Learning under Implicit Contracts
The Accounting Review·2015· 46 cited
Monkey See, Monkey Do? Vicarious Learning Under Implicit Contracts
SSRN Electronic Journal·2013· 3 citedOpen Access
Target Revisions in Multi-Divisional Firms: Effects of Mutual Monitoring
SSRN Electronic Journal·2013Open Access
Turning Up the Volume: An Experimental Investigation of the Role of Mutual Monitoring in Tournaments
Contemporary Accounting Research·2012· 58 citedOpen Access
Turning Up the Volume: An Experimental Investigation of the Role of Mutual Monitoring in Tournaments
2012· 7 cited
Sticks and Carrots: The Effect of Contract Frame on Effort in Incomplete Contracts
The Accounting Review·2012· 196 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Gary Hecht(13), R. Lynn Hannan(7), Ivo Tafkov(7), Karen L. Sedatole(6), Kathryn Kadous(6), Jacob Zureich(6), Karl Schuhmacher(5), Frederick W. Rankin(4), Steven J. Kachelmeier(4), Anne M. Farrell(4), Angela Coletti(3), Margaret H. Christ(3), Sudipta Basu(3), John Dickhaut(3), Gregory B. Waymire(3), Victor S. Maas(2), Marcel van Rinsum(2), Lisa Koonce(2), Wendy J. Bailey(2), Jongwoon Choi(2)