Seminar Series
The Accounting Department Research Seminar Series takes place each semester, featuring researchers and faculty members from leading universities and institutions.
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 | TBA |
| November 6 | Heidi Packard WPC School of Accountancy, Arizona State University | TBA |
| November 20 | Daniela De la Parra Kenan-Flager Business School, University of North Carolina | TBA |
| December 4 | Kalash Jain Columbia Business School, Columbia University | TBA |
Spring 2026:
| Date: | Speaker: | Topic: |
| January 29 | Lisa De Simone McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin | TBA |
| February 12 | Shirley Lu Harvard Business School, Harvard University | TBA |
| March 12 | Miguel Angel Minutti-Meza Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami | TBA |
| April 9 | Elsa Juliani INSEAD | TBA |
| April 30 | Phillip Stocken Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College | TBA |
Past Seminars
*Please note that affiliations and other details for seminar speakers listed in past years may have changed.
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 |