Melissa A. Martin

Research
Research Interests: Managerial Accounting, Incentive Compensation, Non-financial
Performance Measures, Trust in Organizations, Cost Accounting Choices
Working Papers:
Are Firms Myopic?: The Case of Contracting on Performance and Risk (with K. Drake
and J. Brown)
- Under review The Accounting Review
Are All Nonfinancial Performance Measures Created Equal? Evidence on Customer
Satisfaction and Employee Satisfaction Measures from the Homebuilding Industry (with X. Chen
and K. Merchant)
- Under review Management Accounting Research
Paying for Differences in Pay: A Field Test of Inequality Aversion
- Preparing for submission to The Accounting Review
Who sets price in the labor market: The case of dynamic CEOs (with B. Cadman)
- Preparing for submission to Review of Financial Studies
Works in Progress:
Using a Noisy Filter to Filter Out Noise: A Study of Peer Groups in Executive Compensation
(with M. Matejka and S. Tsui)
- Data analysis stage
The Value of Social Capital: Evidence from Executive Compensation Contracts
- Data collection stage
Research Grants:
Institute of Management Accountants, 2007, to support research on the impact of economic
assumptions on incentive system effectiveness.
Practitioner Publications:
“Customer Satisfaction”. Xiaoling Chen, Melissa Martin, Kenneth A. Merchant. Financial
Management, May 2009, p.34-35.
Doctoral Dissertation Committees
• Katharine Drake – “Does Firm Life Cycle Explain the Relationship Between Book-Tax
Differences and Earnings Persistence?”
o Placed University of Arizona
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