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.

If you are interested in attending an upcoming seminar please email gw2326@stern.nyu.edu for more information.

Fall 2023

Date: Speaker: Topic:
September 22 Yadav Gopalan
Kelley School of Business, Indiana Univeristy		 How (in)effective was bank supervision during the 2022 Monetary Tightening?
September 29 Eva Labro 
Kenan-Flagler Business School,
University of North Carolina		 Overreliance on Data in Forecasting
October 6 Jungho Choi
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University		 Fraudulent Financial Reporting and the Consequences for Employees
October 13 Matthias Breuer
Columbia Business School, Columbia University		 Audit Mandates, Audit Firms, and Auditors
November 17 Fabrizio Ferri 
Herbert Business School, University of Miami		 Searching for Directors

Spring 2024

Date: Speaker: Topic:
February 16 TBD TBA
March 1 Rahul Vashishtha
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University		 TBA
March 8 Davide Cianciaruso
HEC Paris		 TBA
March 29 Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California		 TBA
April 5 Zachary Kaplan
Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis		 TBA

Past Seminars

Date: Speaker: Topic:
September 24 Sarah Zechman
UC Boulder		  
October 1 Kristen Valentine
University of Georgia		  
October 22 Mark Maffett
TBC		  
October 29 Beatrice Michaeli
UCLA		  
November 12 Stephen Glaeser
UNC		  
December 10 Joao Granja
Chicago		  
Date: Speaker: Topic:
February 5 Aytekin Ertan
London Business School		  
February 26 Frank Zhou
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania		  
March 12 Robert Goex
University of Zurich		  
March 26 Gwen Yu
University of Michigan		  
April 30 Rimmy Tomy
University of Chicago		  
Date: Speaker: Topic:
October 2 Ed deHaan
University of Washington		  
October 30 David Veenman
University of Amsterdam		  
November 13 Daniel Taylor
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania		  
Date: Speaker: Topic:
September 20 Ahmed Tahoun
London Business School		 Political Lending
September 27 Lin Nan
Purdue University		  
October 4 Daniel Aobdia
Northwestern University		  
October 11 Lauren Cohen
Harvard Business School		  
October 18 Guojin Gong
Penn State		  
October 29 Pingyang Gao
Chicago Booth		  
November 12 Charles Wang
Harvard Business School		  
November 22 Delphine Samuels
MIT Sloan
Date: Speaker: Topic:
March 1 Leslie Robinson
Dartmouth College		  
April 26 Ana Albuquerque
Boston University		  
Date: Speaker: Topic:
September 14 Ivan Marinovic
Stanford University		  
September 21 John Barrios
Chicago Booth		  
September 28 Allison Nicoletti
Wharton School		  
October 5 Eric So
MIT Sloan School of Management		  
November 9 Henry Friedman
UCLA		  
November 16 Xiaojun Zhang
Berkeley		  
December 7 Michel Magnan
Concordia University		  
December 14 Hila Fogel-Yaari
Tulane University		  
Date: Speaker: Topic:
February 9 Paul Fischer
University of Pennsylvania		 Mission Capture
March 2 Edward Li
Baruch College		  
March 23 Eric Allen
USC Marshall School of Business		  
March 30 Christian Leuz
Booth School of Business		  
April 20 Robert Bushman
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill		  
April 27 T.J. Wong
USC Marshall School of Business		  
May 4 Jennifer Tucker
University of Florida		  
Date: Speaker: Topic:
September 15 Terrence Blackburne
University of Washington		 Why do CEOs make unprofitable purchases?
September 29 T.J. Wong
University of Southern California		  
October 6 Sri Sridharan
Northwestern University		 Mandatory and Voluntary Disclosures: Dynamic Interactions
November 10 Xiao-Jun Zhang
University of California, Berkeley		  
December 1 Florin Vasvari
London Business School		  
December 8 Joseph Pacelli
Indiana University		  
Date: Speaker: Topic:
September 9 Maria Ogneva
University Of Southern California		 Corporate Failure and the Business Cycle: Measuring Systematic Risk
 
September 16 Siew Hong Teoh
University of California, Irvine		 Using Google Searches of Firm Products to Nowcast Sales Revenues and Detect Revenue Management
September 30 Michael Minnis
University of Chicago		 Commercial Lending Concentration and Bank Expertise:
Evidence from Borrower Financial Statements*
 
October 7 Sugata Roychowdhury
Boston College		 Clarity begins at home: Internal Information Asymmetry and External Communication Quality
October 14 Lakshmanan Shivakumar
London Business School		 Do Compensation Disclosures Matter for SoP  Voting?
October 21 Mary Barth
Stanford University		 Evolution in Value Relevance of Accounting Information
October 28 Chandra Kanodia
University of Minnesota		 Mark-to-Market: Real Effects and Social Welfare
November 18 Thomas Hemmer
Rice University		 Income Smoothing as a rational for equilibrium behavior
December 2 Brad Badertscher
University of Notre Dame		 The Market Reaction to Bank Regulatory Filings
 
December 9 Monica Neamtiu
Baruch College		 The disciplining effect of credit default swap trading on the
performance of credit rating agencies
December 16 Alvis Lo
Boston College		 Employment laws, employee information input, and delays in loss recognition: Evidence from U.S. banks
Date: Speaker: Topic:
January 30 Gerardo Perez Cavazos
University of Chicago		 Sharing private information with customers:
Strategic default and lender learning
February 4 Nathan Marshall 
Indiana University		 THE FLOW OF EARNINGS INFORMATION TO THE MARKET
February 6 Daniel Saavedra 
MIT Sloan School of  Management		 Renegotiation and the Choice of Covenants in Debt Contracts
February 10 Andrew Sutherland 
University of Chicago		 The Economic Consequences of Borrower Information Sharing:
Relationship Dynamics and Investment
February 13 Wen Chen 
University of Minnesota		 Equity investor sentiment and bond market reaction:
Test of overinvestment and capital flow hypotheses
February 17 Omri Even-Tov
University of California		 Can the Bond Price Reaction to Earnings Announcements Predict Future Stock Returns?
Date: Speaker: Topic:
October 3 Igor Kadach
New York University
 		  
October 10 Feng Li
University of Michigan		  
October 17 Dushyant Vyas
University of Toronto		  
November 14 Gaoqing Zhang
Carnegie Mellon University		  
November 21 Jeremy Bertomeu
City University of New York		  
December 12 Miguel Minutti-Meza
University of Miami		  
Date: Speaker: Topic:
January 14 John Gallemore
University of North Carolina		  Does bank opacity enable regulatory forbearance?
January 21 Kyle Welch
Harvard Business School		 Private Equity's Diversification Illusion:
Economic Comovement and Fair Value Reporting
January 28 Lindsey Gallo
University of Maryland		  The More We Know about Fundamentals, the Less We Agree on Price?
Evidence from Earnings Announcements
February 2014 Bryce Schonberger
University of Southern California		  Real asset liquidity and asset impairments
February 11 Nan Li
University of Chicago		  Labor Market Peer Firms
February 14 Anne Heinrichs
University of Chicago		  Investors’ access to corporate management: A field experiment about 1-on-1-calls
February 28 Scott Richardson
London Business School		  Risky Value
Date: Speaker: Topic:
January 25 Joao Granja
University of Chicago		 Disclosure Regulation in the Commercial Banking Industry: Lessons from the National Banking Era.
February 1 Christine Cuny
University of Chicago		 Determinants of Municipal Disclosure and the Consequences of Dissemination
February 8 Matthew Lyle
University of Toronto		 How Does Accounting Quality Affect Option Returns?
February 15 Suhas A. Sridharan
Stanford University		 Volatility forecasting using financial Statement information
February 27 Ed deHaan
University of Washington		 The Financial Crisis and Credibility of Corporate Credit Ratings
March 1 Hoa Xue
Carnegie Mellon University		 Independent and Affiliated Analysts: Disciplining and Herding
March 8 Jeremy Michels
University of Colorado Boulder		 Disclosure Versus Recognition: Inferences from Subsequent Events
Date: Speaker: Topic:
September 14 Ilan Guttman
Stanford University		 Not Only What But also When: A Theory of Dynamic Voluntary Disclosure
September 28 Phil Stocken
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth		 Location of Decision-Rights Within Multinational Firms
October 12 Tzachi Zach
Ohio State University		 Sell-Side Benchmarks
October 19 Scott Dyreng
Duke University		 Cross-Jurisdictional Income Shifting by U.S. Multinationals
October 26 Tjomme Rusticus
Northwestern University		 Market inefficiency and implied cost of capital models
November 9 Robert Bloomfield
Cornell University		 Credit Spreads, Consumer Sentiment and
Operating Leverage
November 12 Seda Oz
NYU		 Job Market Paper
November 30 Nemit Shroff
MIT Sloan School of Management		 Externalities of Public Firm Presence: Evidence from Private
Firms' Investment Decisions
December 7 Panos Patatoukas
University of California, Berkeley
Date: Speaker: Topic:
January 4 Eric C. So
Stanford University		 A New Approach to Predicting Analyst Forecast Errors: Do Investors Overweight Analyst Forecasts?
January 13 Mark G. Maffett
University of North Carolina		 Who Benefits from Corporate Opacity? International Evidence from Informed Trading by Institutional Investors
January 18 Rahul Vashishtha
University of Pennsylvania		 &Evidence on the role of banks in borrowers' disclosure
January 20 Daniel Aobdia
UCLA Anderson School of Management		 Proprietary Information Spillovers and Auditor Choice
January 25 Yiwei Dou
University of Toronto		 The Debt-Contracting Value of Accounting Numbers, Renegotiation, and Investment Efficiency
January 27 Lin Cheng
Ohio State University		 Organized Labor and Debt Contracting: Firm-Level Evidence from Collective Bargaining
February 1 Justin Hopkins
University of North Carolina		 Private Enforcement of Securities Laws and Financial Reporting Choices
February 8 Elizabeth Blankespoor
University of Michigan		 The Impact of Investor Information Processing Costs on Firm Disclosure Choice: Evidence from the XBRL Mandate
February 10 Michael Tang
University of Rochester		 What Guides the Guidance?
An Empirical Examination of the Dynamic Disclosure Theory
February 15 Eric Weisbrod
Arizona State University		 The Disposition Effect as a Determinant of the Abnormal Volume and Return
February 16 Anastasia Zakolyukina
Stanford University		 Measure of International Manipulation: A Structural Approach< /a>
February 22 Suresh Nallareddy
University of Southern California		 Does Differential Sensitivity to Aggregate Earning Shocks Drive Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift?
Date: Speaker: Topic:
September 23 Wan Wongsunwai
Northwestern University		 Debtholder Responses to Shareholder Activism
September 30 Roger Willett
University of Tasmania, Australia		 Parameter Heterogeneity

Multiplicative Models In Regressions
October 7 Jeffrey Ng
MIT		 The Role of Financial Reporting Transparency
October 14 Preeti Choudhary
Georgetown University		 Form 10-K Timing and Information Asymmetry
November 11 Sophia Hamm
Ohio State		 Having Accounting Standards Affected Deal Structures in Mergers and Acquisitions?
December 2 Partha Mohanram
University of Toronto		 The Role of Analysts' Cash Flow Forecasts in the Decline of the Accruals Anomaly
December 9 Ed Owens
University of Rochester		 Window Dressing of Short-term Borrowings
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