Seminar Series

The Accounting Department Research Seminar Series takes place each semester featuring researchers and faculty members from leading universities and institutions. Attendance is by invitation only. 

Please email Gina Wierzbicki (gw2326@stern.nyu.edu) for more information.

Fall 2025

Date:Speaker:Topic:
October 9Miao Liu
Carroll School of Management, Boston College		When Charts Deceive: Misleading Visuals in Corporate Presentations
October 30Yuan Zou
Harvard Business School, Harvard University		TBA
November 6Heidi Packard
WPC School of Accountancy, Arizona State University		TBA
November 20Daniela De la Parra
Kenan-Flager Business School, University of North Carolina		TBA
December 4Kalash Jain
Columbia Business School, Columbia University		TBA

Spring 2026: 

Date:Speaker:Topic:
January 29Lisa De Simone
McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin		TBA
February 12Shirley Lu
Harvard Business School, Harvard University		TBA
March 12Miguel Angel Minutti-Meza
Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami		TBA
April 9Elsa Juliani
INSEAD		TBA
April 30Phillip 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.

 

 

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Fall 2024

Date:Speaker:Topic:
September 20Lakshmanan Shivakumar
London Business School		Aggregate Earnings of Private and Public Firms and the Macroeconomy
October 24Kevin Smith 
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University		Public Information and the Securities Lending Market
November 15Jonathan Glover
Columbia Business School, Columbia University		Functional vs. Cross-Functional Teams and The Role of Productive Heterogeneity
November 22Joanna Wu
Simon Business School, University of Rochester		Partisan Regulatory Actions: Evidence from the SEC
December 6Frank (Shuang) Zhou
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania		The Market for Accountants

Spring 2025

Date:Speaker:Topic:
February 21Darren Bernard
Foster School of Business, University of Washington		Peer Evaluations of Corporate Externalities
March 7Joseph 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 14Kevin Chen
The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University		Voluntary Disclosure in the Face of Bank Runs
April 25Aiyesha Dey
Harvard Business School, Harvard University		Pay Versus Performance and Investor Voting Decisions
April 30Gaiza Ormabazal
IESE Business School, University of Navarra		Do consumers (have to) pay for ESG?

Fall 2023

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

Spring 2024

Date:Speaker:Topic:
March 1Rahul Vashishtha
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University		Earnings Information Spillovers and Depositor Contagion
March 8Davide Cianciaruso
New Economic School		Earnings Increases as Costly Signals: Theory and Evidence
March 29Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University		Non-Fundamental Loan Renegotiations
April 5Zachary 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 16Ivan Marinovic
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University		 
October 7Aaron Yoon
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University		ESG And Shareholder Value: The Role Of Board Facial Impressions And Perceived Trustworthiness
November 2Benjamin P. Yost 
Carroll School of Management, Boston College		Strategic Valuations in M&A Fairness Opinions 
November 4Xiumin Martin
Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis		Investor Base Disclosure and Entrepreneurial Success: Evidence from Crowdfunding
December 6Frank (Shuang) Zhou
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania		The Market for Accountants

Spring 2023

Date:Speaker:Topic:
March 3Sugata Roychowdhury
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University		Real Effects of Non-Concurrent Guidance from Accounting and Prudential Regulators:  Evidence from CECL
April 14Hans B. Christensen
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago 		Consumers care but do they act?   Consumer Responses to Corporate Social Irresponsibility 
April 21Mary 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 4Laurence van Lent
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management		Seeing People: the selective attention of financial analysts in their research output 
May 19Jennifer 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 24Sarah Zechman
UC Boulder		 
October 1Kristen Valentine
University of Georgia		 
October 22Mark Maffett
TBC		 
October 29Beatrice Michaeli
UCLA		 
November 12Stephen Glaeser
UNC		 
December 10Joao Granja
Chicago		 

Fall 2020

Date:Speaker:Topic:
October 2Ed deHaan
University of Washington		 
October 30David Veenman
University of Amsterdam		 
November 13Daniel Taylor
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania		 

Spring 2021

Date:Speaker:Topic:
February 5Aytekin Ertan
London Business School		 
February 26Frank Zhou
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania		 
March 12Robert Goex
University of Zurich		 
March 26Gwen Yu
University of Michigan		 
April 30Rimmy Tomy
University of Chicago		 

Fall 2019

Date:Speaker:Topic:
September 20Ahmed Tahoun
London Business School		Political Lending
September 27Lin Nan
Purdue University		 
October 4Daniel Aobdia
Northwestern University		 
October 11Lauren Cohen
Harvard Business School		 
October 18Guojin Gong
Penn State		 
October 29Pingyang Gao
Chicago Booth		 
November 12Charles Wang
Harvard Business School		 
November 22Delphine Samuels
MIT Sloan		 

Fall 2018

Date:Speaker:Topic:
September 14Ivan Marinovic
Stanford University		 
September 21John Barrios
Chicago Booth		 
September 28Allison Nicoletti
Wharton School		 
October 5Eric So
MIT Sloan School of Management		 
November 9Henry Friedman
UCLA		 
November 16Xiaojun Zhang
Berkeley		 
December 7Michel Magnan
Concordia University		 
December 14Hila Fogel-Yaari
Tulane University		 

Spring 2019

Date:Speaker:Topic:
March 1Leslie Robinson
Dartmouth College		 
April 26Ana Albuquerque
Boston University		 

Fall 2017

Date:Speaker:Topic:
September 15Terrence Blackburne
University of Washington		Why do CEOs make unprofitable purchases?
September 29T.J. Wong
University of Southern California		 
October 6Sri Sridharan
Northwestern University		Mandatory and Voluntary Disclosures: Dynamic Interactions
November 10Xiao-Jun Zhang
University of California, Berkeley		 
December 1Florin Vasvari
London Business School		 
December 8Joseph Pacelli
Indiana University		 

Spring 2018

Date:Speaker:Topic:
February 9Paul Fischer
University of Pennsylvania		Mission Capture 
March 2Edward Li
Baruch College		 
March 23Eric Allen
USC Marshall School of Business		 
March 30Christian Leuz
Booth School of Business		 
April 20Robert Bushman
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill		 
April 27T.J. Wong
USC Marshall School of Business		 
May 4Jennifer Tucker
University of Florida		 

Fall 2016

Date:Speaker:Topic:
September 9Maria Ogneva
University Of Southern California		Corporate Failure and the Business Cycle: Measuring Systematic Risk
 
September 16Siew Hong Teoh
University of California, Irvine		Using Google Searches of Firm Products to Nowcast Sales Revenues and Detect Revenue Management
September 30Michael Minnis
University of Chicago		Commercial Lending Concentration and Bank Expertise:
Evidence from Borrower Financial Statements*
 
October 7Sugata Roychowdhury
Boston College		Clarity begins at home: Internal Information Asymmetry and External Communication Quality
October 14Lakshmanan Shivakumar
London Business School		Do Compensation Disclosures Matter for SoP  Voting?
October 21Mary Barth
Stanford University		Evolution in Value Relevance of Accounting Information
October 28Chandra Kanodia
University of Minnesota		Mark-to-Market: Real Effects and Social Welfare
November 18Thomas Hemmer
Rice University		Income Smoothing as a rational for equilibrium behavior
December 2Brad Badertscher
University of Notre Dame		The Market Reaction to Bank Regulatory Filings
 
December 9Monica Neamtiu
Baruch College		The disciplining effect of credit default swap trading on the
performance of credit rating agencies
December 16Alvis Lo
Boston College		Employment laws, employee information input, and delays in loss recognition: Evidence from U.S. banks

Fall 2014

Date:Speaker:Topic:
October 3Igor Kadach
New York University
 		 
October 10Feng Li
University of Michigan		 
October 17Dushyant Vyas
University of Toronto		 
November 14Gaoqing Zhang
Carnegie Mellon University		 
November 21Jeremy Bertomeu
City University of New York		 
December 12Miguel Minutti-Meza
University of Miami		 

Spring 2015

Date:Speaker:Topic:
January 30Gerardo Perez Cavazos
University of Chicago		Sharing private information with customers:
Strategic default and lender learning
February 4Nathan Marshall 
Indiana University		THE FLOW OF EARNINGS INFORMATION TO THE MARKET
February 6Daniel Saavedra 
MIT Sloan School of  Management		Renegotiation and the Choice of Covenants in Debt Contracts
February 10Andrew Sutherland 
University of Chicago		The Economic Consequences of Borrower Information Sharing:
Relationship Dynamics and Investment
February 13Wen Chen 
University of Minnesota		Equity investor sentiment and bond market reaction:
Test of overinvestment and capital flow hypotheses
February 17Omri Even-Tov
University of California		Can the Bond Price Reaction to Earnings Announcements Predict Future Stock Returns?

Fall 2013

Date:Speaker:Topic:
September 6Sudipta Basu
Temple University		Professional Knowledge‐Building Institutions and the Historical Emergence of Accounting Norms
September 20Gilles Hilary
INSEAD		Does Accounting Conservatism Impede Corporate Innovation?
September 27Steven Monahan
INSEAD		The Higher Moments of Future Return on Equity
October 4Volker Laux
UT Austin		Accounting Standards, Regulatory Enforcement, and Investment Decisions
October 11Shiva Rajgopal
Emory		Did going public impair Moody's credit ratings?
October 25Xiumin Martin
Washington University in St Louis		Do Financial Market Developments Influence Accounting Practices?
Credit Default Swaps and Borrowers' Reporting Conservatism
December 6Jing Li
CMU		The Corporate Governance Role of Information Quality and Corporate Takeovers

Spring 2014

Date:Speaker:Topic:
January 14John Gallemore
University of North Carolina		Does bank opacity enable regulatory forbearance?
January 21Kyle Welch
Harvard Business School		Private Equity's Diversification Illusion:
Economic Comovement and Fair Value Reporting
January 28Lindsey Gallo
University of Maryland		The More We Know about Fundamentals, the Less We Agree on Price?
Evidence from Earnings Announcements
February 2014Bryce Schonberger
University of Southern California		Real asset liquidity and asset impairments
February 11Nan Li
University of Chicago		 Labor Market Peer Firms
February 14Anne Heinrichs
University of Chicago		 Investors’ access to corporate management: A field experiment about 1-on-1-calls
February 28Scott Richardson
London Business School		 Risky Value

Fall 2012

Date:Speaker:Topic:
September 14Ilan Guttman
Stanford University		Not Only What But also When: A Theory of Dynamic Voluntary Disclosure
September 28Phil Stocken
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth		Location of Decision-Rights Within Multinational Firms
October 12Tzachi Zach
Ohio State University		Sell-Side Benchmarks
October 19Scott Dyreng
Duke University		Cross-Jurisdictional Income Shifting by U.S. Multinationals
October 26Tjomme Rusticus
Northwestern University		Market inefficiency and implied cost of capital models
November 9Robert Bloomfield
Cornell University		Credit Spreads, Consumer Sentiment and
Operating Leverage
November 12Seda Oz
NYU		Job Market Paper
November 30Nemit Shroff
MIT Sloan School of Management		Externalities of Public Firm Presence: Evidence from Private
Firms' Investment Decisions
December 7Panos Patatoukas
University of California, Berkeley

 

Spring 2013

Date:Speaker:Topic:
January 25Joao Granja
University of Chicago		Disclosure Regulation in the Commercial Banking Industry: Lessons from the National Banking Era.
February 1Christine Cuny
University of Chicago		Determinants of Municipal Disclosure and the Consequences of Dissemination
February 8Matthew Lyle
University of Toronto		How Does Accounting Quality Affect Option Returns?
February 15Suhas A. Sridharan
Stanford University		Volatility forecasting using financial Statement information
February 27Ed deHaan
University of Washington		The Financial Crisis and Credibility of Corporate Credit Ratings
March 1Hoa Xue
Carnegie Mellon University		Independent and Affiliated Analysts: Disciplining and Herding
March 8Jeremy Michels
University of Colorado Boulder		Disclosure Versus Recognition: Inferences from Subsequent Events

 

Fall 2011

Date:Speaker:Topic:
September 23Wan Wongsunwai
Northwestern University		Debtholder Responses to Shareholder Activism
September 30Roger Willett
University of Tasmania, Australia		Parameter Heterogeneity

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

Spring 2012

Date:Speaker:Topic:
January 4Eric C. So
Stanford University		A New Approach to Predicting Analyst Forecast Errors: Do Investors Overweight Analyst Forecasts?
January 13Mark G. Maffett
University of North Carolina		Who Benefits from Corporate Opacity? International Evidence from Informed Trading by Institutional Investors
January 18Rahul Vashishtha
University of Pennsylvania		&Evidence on the role of banks in borrowers' disclosure
January 20Daniel Aobdia
UCLA Anderson School of Management		Proprietary Information Spillovers and Auditor Choice
January 25Yiwei Dou
University of Toronto		The Debt-Contracting Value of Accounting Numbers, Renegotiation, and Investment Efficiency
January 27Lin Cheng
Ohio State University		Organized Labor and Debt Contracting: Firm-Level Evidence from Collective Bargaining
February 1Justin Hopkins
University of North Carolina		Private Enforcement of Securities Laws and Financial Reporting Choices
February 8Elizabeth Blankespoor
University of Michigan		The Impact of Investor Information Processing Costs on Firm Disclosure Choice: Evidence from the XBRL Mandate
February 10Michael Tang
University of Rochester		What Guides the Guidance?
An Empirical Examination of the Dynamic Disclosure Theory
February 15Eric Weisbrod
Arizona State University		The Disposition Effect as a Determinant of the Abnormal Volume and Return
February 16Anastasia Zakolyukina
Stanford University		Measure of International Manipulation: A Structural Approach< /a>
February 22Suresh Nallareddy
University of Southern California		Does Differential Sensitivity to Aggregate Earning Shocks Drive Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift?