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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 10Miao Liu
Carroll School of Management, Boston College
TBA
October 30Yuan Zou
Harvard Business School, Harvard University
TBA
November 6Heidi Packard
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
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: TBA

 

Past Seminars

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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
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
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
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 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
 
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
 
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 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

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?