# Christine Cuny 0 cc171 [Tenured or Tenure Track](/taxonomy/term/4799) Associate Professor of Accounting 2013 [ Personal Website ](https://www.christinecuny.com/) ![Christine Cuny profile photo](/sites/default/files/styles/480w_x_543h/public/media/cc171.jpg?h=8b949847&itok=XVNV2zY2) Kaufman Management Center 44 West Fourth Street, 10-82 New York, NY 10012 10-82 0 - Ph.D. University of Chicago Booth School of Business - MBA University of Chicago Booth School of Business - M.S., Accounting Wake Forest University - B.S., Analytical Finance Wake Forest University - Empirical Research in Accounting - Financial Statement Analysis (Graduate/Langone) - Financial Statement Analysis (Undergraduate) Professor Cuny’s research examines the economic, political, and competitive forces that shape financial disclosure decisions – and investors’ response thereto. She uses a variety of settings to study financial disclosure, though her work primarily focuses on local governments that participate in the municipal bond market. Professor Cuny’s scholarly contributions have been published in prestigious journals, including the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Management Science, Review of Accounting Studies, and Contemporary Accounting Research. Prior to joining NYU Stern in 2013, Professor Cuny worked at Morgan Stanley as an equity research associate covering the property and casualty insurance industry and at PricewaterhouseCoopers as an auditor in the banking practice. She currently teaches financial statement analysis in the undergraduate and MBA programs and a doctoral seminar on financial reporting. Her dedication to teaching was recognized with the NYU Stern Distinguished Teaching Award in 2022. Professor Cuny holds a B.S. in Analytical Finance and an M.S. in Accounting from Wake Forest University, in addition to an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Accounting - Financial Reporting - Financial Statement Analysis Finance - Credit/Debt Markets - Disclosure and financial reporting - Information asymmetry and imperfect markets - Market microstructure - Municipal finance - Christine Cuny, Mihir Mehta and Jungbae Kim (2026) [Political Costs and Strategic Corporate Communication](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165410126000030) Journal of Accounting and Economics \[2026; 81(3), 101860\] - Christine Cuny, Ken Li, Anya Nakhmurina, Edward Watts (2025) [Muni Disclosure: All Talk and No Trade?](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165410125000333) Journal of Accounting and Economics \[2025; 80(1), pp. 101797\] - Christine Cuny, Mihir Mehta and Wanli Zhao (2025) [Limits to Political Capture: Evidence from Patent Grants, Disclosures, and Litigation](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-679X.12607) Journal of Accounting Research \[2025; 63(4), pp. 1453-1492\] - Christine Cuny and Svenja Dube (2025) [The Moderating Role of Disclosure Quality](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1911-3846.12991?casa_token=ba1Mw6YdDlIAAAAA:bdIS9Goj) Contemporary Accounting Research \[2025; 42(1), pp. 94-120\] - Christine Cuny, Stephanie Cheng, and Hao Xue (2023) [Disclosure and Competition for Capital](https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4525) Management Science, 69(7), pp.4312-4330 - Christine Cuny, Omri Even-Tov, and Edward M. Watts (2021) [From implicit to explicit: The impact of disclosure requirements on hidden transaction costs](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3393747) Journal of Accounting Research, 59(1), pp. 215-242 - Christine Cuny and Ryan T. Ball (2021) [Information Imprecision](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3171824) The Accounting Review, 96(2), pp.33-53 - Christine Cuny, Jungbae Kim and Mihir N. Mehta (2020) [Politically Connected Governments](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1475-679X.12325) Journal of Accounting Research, 58(4), pp.915–952 - Christine Cuny (2018) [When knowledge is power: Evidence from the municipal bond market](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2773890) Journal of Accounting and Economics, 65, pp.109-128 - Christine Cuny, Jeffrey J. Burks, Joseph Gerakos and João Granja (2018) [Competition and voluntary disclosure: Evidence from deregulation in the banking industry](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2129805) Review of Accounting Studies, 23(4), pp. 1471-1511 - Christine Cuny (2016) [Voluntary disclosure incentives: Evidence from the municipal bond market](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2346847) Journal of Accounting and Economics, 62, pp. 87-102