Rate My Professor Jacob Raleigh

Dr. Jacob Raleigh serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting at Monash Business School, part of the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University, based at the Caulfield campus. He obtained his PhD in Accounting from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. His primary research interests center on securities market regulation, with a particular emphasis on SEC enforcement and insider trading. Additional areas of expertise include regulation and governance, whistleblowing, insider trading and corporate crime, and options.

Raleigh has made significant contributions to the academic literature through publications in top-tier journals. In 2024, he published the solo-authored paper 'The deterrent effect of whistleblowing on insider trading' in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (Volume 59, Issue 8, pages 3739-3769), which analyzes the effectiveness of the Dodd-Frank whistleblower program in curbing informed trading around earnings announcements. That same year, he co-authored 'Protecting wall street or main street: SEC monitoring and enforcement of retail-owned firms' with Michael Iselin, Bret Johnson, and Jacob Ott, appearing in the Review of Accounting Studies (Volume 29, pages 1235-1275). This research investigates disparities in SEC monitoring and enforcement targeting firms with higher proportions of retail investors. In his educational capacity, Dr. Raleigh acts as Chief Examiner for ACO5160 - Introduction to Accounting Analytics, available both on-campus and through Monash Online, and ACF1100 - Introduction to Financial Accounting, delivered on-campus at Caulfield. He also engages in scholarly discourse by moderating academic sessions, including Session 3 at the International Consortium for Values-based Governance 2026 event hosted by Monash University. His work provides insights valuable to regulators, corporations, and governance practitioners on enhancing market integrity.