Seminar Series
The Accounting Department Research Seminar Series takes place each semester featuring researchers, faculty members, and Ph.D students from leading universities and institutions.
| Topic/Title | Speaker and Affiliation | Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2012 | ||||
| A New Approach to Predicting Analyst Forecast Errors: Do Investors Overweight Analyst Forecasts? | Eric C. So Stanford University | Jan 04, 2012 | ||
| Who Benefits from Corporate Opacity? International Evidence from Informed Trading by Institutional Investors | Mark G. Maffett University of North Carolina | Jan 13, 2012 | ||
| Evidence on the role of banks in borrowers' disclosure | Rahul Vashishtha University of Pennsylvania | Jan 18, 2012 | ||
| Proprietary Information Spillovers and Auditor Choice | Daniel Aobdia UCLA Anderson School of Management | Jan 20, 2012 | ||
| The Debt-Contracting Value of Accounting Numbers, Renegotiation, and Investment Efficiency | Yiwei Dou University of Toronto | Jan 25, 2012 | ||
| Organized Labor and Debt Contracting: Firm-Level Evidence from Collective Bargaining | Lin Cheng Ohio State University | Jan 27, 2012 | ||
| Private Enforcement of Securities Laws and Financial Reporting Choices | Justin Hopkins University of North Carolina | Feb 1, 2012 | ||
| The Impact of Investor Information Processing Costs on Firm Disclosure Choice: Evidence from the XBRL Mandate | Elizabeth Blankespoor University of Michigan | Feb 8, 2012 | ||
| What Guides the Guidance? An Empirical Examination of the Dynamic Disclosure Theory | Michael Tang, University of Rochester | Feb 10, 2012 | ||
| The Disposition Effect as a Determinant of the Abnormal Volume and Return | Eric Weisbrod, Arizona State University | Feb 15, 2012 | ||
| Measure of International Manipulation: A Structural Approach | Anastasia Zakolyukina Stanford University | Feb 16, 2012 | ||
| Does Differential Sensitivity to Aggregate Earning Shocks Drive Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift? | Suresh Nallareddy, University of Southern California | Feb 22, 2012 | ||
| Mar 2, 2012 | ||||
Fall 2011 | ||||
| PhD Students | Sept 9, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 | |
| PhD Students | Sept 16, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 | |
| Debtholder Responses to Shareholder Activism | Wan Wongsunwai (Northwestern University) | Sept 23, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 |
| Parameter Heterogeneity Multiplicative Models In Regressions | Roger Willett (University of Tasmania, Australia | Sept 30, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 |
| The Role of Financial Reporting Transparency | Jeffrey Ng MIT | Oct 7, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 |
| Form 10-K Timing and Information Asymmetry | Preeti Choudhary Georgetown University | Oct 14, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 |
| JAE Conference | Oct 21, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 | |
| -------- | Oct 28, 2011 | |||
| JAAF Conference | Nov 4, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 | |
| Having Accounting Standards Affected Deal Structures in Mergers and Acquisitions? | Sophia Hamm Ohio State | Nov 11, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 |
| FEA and RAST | Nov 18, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 | |
| The Role of Analysts' Cash Flow Forecasts in the Decline of the Accruals Anomaly | Partha Mohanram University of Toronto | Dec 2, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 |
| Window Dressing of Short-term Borrowings | Ed Owens University of Rochester | Dec 9, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 |
| <TBD> | Dec 16, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 | |
Spring 2011 | ||||
| TBD | Clare Wang (Recruiting) | Feb 4, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 |
| Alon Kalay (Recruiting) | Feb 11, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 | |
| TBD | Salman Arif (Recruiting) | Feb 18, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 |
| Xiaojing Meng (Recruiting) | Feb 23, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 | |
| Anna Costello (Recruiting) | Feb 25, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 | |
| Dan Amiram (Recruiting) | Mar 4, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 | |
| Mirko Heinle (Recruiting) | Mar 9, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 | |
| James Naughton (Recruiting) | Mar 11, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 | |
| Ivan Marinovic (Recruiting) | Mar 23, 2011 | 11:00-12:30 | KMC 10-181 | |
N. Stern School of Business, New York University, is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.learningmarket.org Learning Objective: To supply participants with an update of current Accounting Thought and Research—by attending this course you will learn updates of current accounting and auditing practices.
Delivery Method: Group-live
Program level: Update
Prerequisites: Faculty, Ph.D. Students, and others that are experts in their respective disciplines.
Recommended CPE: Each session 1.5 hours (each participant is awarded based on a 50 min session 1 CPE credit)
Advanced Preparation: Reading articles, reviewing material
To register for this course, contact Bebi Karimbaksh of the Accounting Department at 212-998-0006.
No fee involved.
For more information regarding administrative policies such as complaints, please contact our offices at (212) 998-0010.





