Seminar Series
The Accounting Department Research Seminar Series takes place each semester, featuring researchers and faculty members from leading universities and institutions.
Seminars are open to NYU faculty and PhD students. Please email gw2326@stern.nyu.edu for more information.
Fall 2026
| Date: | Speaker: | Topic: |
| September 24 | Tim Baldenius Columbia Business School, Columbia University | TBA |
| October 8 | Stephen Glaeser Kenan-Flagler Business School, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | TBA |
| October 29 | Anastasia Zakolyukina Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College | TBA |
| November 19 | Marco Errico Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University | TBA |
| December 3 | Maria Ogneva Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | TBA |
Spring 2027:
| Date: | Speaker: | Topic: |
| January 28 | John Donovan Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame | TBA |
| February 4 | Sara Malik David Eccles School of Business, The University of Utah | TBA |
| March 11 | Joseph Pacelli Harvard Business School, Harvard University | TBA |
| April 1 | Brian Mittendorf Max M. Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University | TBA |
| April 8 | Wei Cai Columbia Business School, Columbia University | TBA |
Past Seminars
*Please note that affiliations and other details for seminar speakers listed in past years may have changed.
Fall 2025
| Date: | Speaker: | Topic: |
| October 9 | Miao Liu Carroll School of Management, Boston College | When Charts Deceive: Misleading Visuals in Corporate Presentations |
| October 30 | Yuan Zou Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Firm Visibility and Acquisition Likelihood: Evidence from Seeking Alpha Coverage |
| November 6 | Heidi Packard WPC School of Accountancy, Arizona State University | Managed Returns in Employee-Owned Firms |
| November 20 | Daniela De la Parra Kenan-Flager Business School, University of North Carolina | Measuring Labor Market Competition at the Firm Level and an Application to Innovation Production |
| December 4 | Kalash Jain Columbia Business School, Columbia University | Exploiting Myopia: The Returns to Long-Term Investing |
Spring 2026:
| Date: | Speaker: | Topic: |
| January 29 | Lisa De Simone McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin | Can Public SEC Filings Enable Tax-Motivated Income Shifting? |
| February 12 | Shirley Lu Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Beyond Industry Borders: Climate Solutions and Analyst Expertise |
| March 12 | Miguel Angel Minutti-Meza Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami | The Implications of Variations in PCAOB Monitoring and Audit Firms’ Remediation Efforts After Inspections |
| April 9 | Elsa Juliani INSEAD | Uncertain Information Advantage and Price Discovery: Evidence from Data Vendor Dissemination Differences |
| April 23 | Phillip Stocken Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College | Expanded and Integrated Disclosure |
Fall 2024
| Date: | Speaker: | Topic: |
| September 20 | Lakshmanan Shivakumar London Business School | Aggregate Earnings of Private and Public Firms and the Macroeconomy |
| October 24 | Kevin Smith Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Public Information and the Securities Lending Market |
| November 15 | Jonathan Glover Columbia Business School, Columbia University | Functional vs. Cross-Functional Teams and The Role of Productive Heterogeneity |
| November 22 | Joanna Wu Simon Business School, University of Rochester | Partisan Regulatory Actions: Evidence from the SEC |
| December 6 | Frank (Shuang) Zhou The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | The Market for Accountants |
Spring 2025
| Date: | Speaker: | Topic: |
| February 21 | Darren Bernard Foster School of Business, University of Washington | Peer Evaluations of Corporate Externalities |
| March 7 | Joseph Weber Sloan School of Management, MIT | Is the Goodwill Impairment-Only Model Broken? An Examination of Post-Acquisition Accounting for Goodwill versus Other Intangibles |
| March 14 | Kevin Chen The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Voluntary Disclosure in the Face of Bank Runs |
| April 25 | Aiyesha Dey Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Pay Versus Performance and Investor Voting Decisions |
| April 30 | Gaiza Ormabazal IESE Business School, University of Navarra | Do consumers (have to) pay for ESG? |
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: |
| March 1 | Rahul Vashishtha Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Earnings Information Spillovers and Depositor Contagion |
| March 8 | Davide Cianciaruso New Economic School | Earnings Increases as Costly Signals: Theory and Evidence |
| March 29 | Regina Wittenberg Moerman Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University | Non-Fundamental Loan Renegotiations |
| April 5 | Zachary Kaplan Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis | Uncovering fund trade: Evidence from fund returns around portfolio disclosures |
Fall 2022
| Date: | Speaker: | Topic: |
| September 16 | Ivan Marinovic Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | |
| October 7 | Aaron Yoon Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University | ESG And Shareholder Value: The Role Of Board Facial Impressions And Perceived Trustworthiness |
| November 2 | Benjamin P. Yost Carroll School of Management, Boston College | Strategic Valuations in M&A Fairness Opinions |
| November 4 | Xiumin Martin Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis | Investor Base Disclosure and Entrepreneurial Success: Evidence from Crowdfunding |
| December 6 | Frank (Shuang) Zhou The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | The Market for Accountants |
Spring 2023
| Date: | Speaker: | Topic: |
| March 3 | Sugata Roychowdhury Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University | Real Effects of Non-Concurrent Guidance from Accounting and Prudential Regulators: Evidence from CECL |
| April 14 | Hans B. Christensen Booth School of Business, University of Chicago | Consumers care but do they act? Consumer Responses to Corporate Social Irresponsibility |
| April 21 | Mary Barth Graduate School of Business Stanford University | Information Supporting Investor Valuations: Evidence from a Comparative Content Analysis of Analyst Reports and Form 10-K |
| May 4 | Laurence van Lent Frankfurt School of Finance & Management | Seeing People: the selective attention of financial analysts in their research output |
| May 19 | Jennifer Blouin The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and Investment Efficiency: The Role of Accounting |
Fall 2021
| 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 |
Fall 2020
| 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 |
Spring 2021
| 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 |
Fall 2019
| 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 |
Fall 2018
| 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 |
Spring 2019
| Date: | Speaker: | Topic: |
| March 1 | Leslie Robinson Dartmouth College | |
| April 26 | Ana Albuquerque Boston University |
Fall 2017
| 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 |
Spring 2018
| 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 |
Fall 2016
| 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 |
Fall 2014
| 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 |
Spring 2015
| 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? |
Fall 2013
| Date: | Speaker: | Topic: |
| September 6 | Sudipta Basu Temple University | Professional Knowledge‐Building Institutions and the Historical Emergence of Accounting Norms |
| September 20 | Gilles Hilary INSEAD | Does Accounting Conservatism Impede Corporate Innovation? |
| September 27 | Steven Monahan INSEAD | The Higher Moments of Future Return on Equity |
| October 4 | Volker Laux UT Austin | Accounting Standards, Regulatory Enforcement, and Investment Decisions |
| October 11 | Shiva Rajgopal Emory | Did going public impair Moody's credit ratings? |
| October 25 | Xiumin Martin Washington University in St Louis | Do Financial Market Developments Influence Accounting Practices? Credit Default Swaps and Borrowers' Reporting Conservatism |
| December 6 | Jing Li CMU | The Corporate Governance Role of Information Quality and Corporate Takeovers |
Spring 2014
| 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 |
Fall 2012
| 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 |
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Spring 2013
| 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 |
Fall 2011
| 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 |