# Paul A. Zarowin

0 pz1 [Tenured or Tenure Track](/taxonomy/term/4799) Professor of Accounting Chair, Department of Accounting 1984 [ Personal Website ](http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~pzarowin/)      ![Paul A. Zarowin profile photo](/sites/default/files/styles/480w_x_543h/public/media/pz1.jpg?h=f2399456&itok=I3_shkbW)

Kaufman Management Center

44 West Fourth Street, 10-75

New York, NY 10012

10-75 0 - Ph.D., Business Economics, 1985

University of Chicago
- M.B.A., Finance, 1981

University of Chicago
- B.A., History, 1977

University of Pennsylvania

- Accounting for Lawyers (NYU Law School)
- Financial Accounting - Intro, Intermediate, PhD.
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Forensic Accounting and Financial Statement Fraud

Paul Zarowin is a Professor of Accounting at the Stern School of Business, New York University. Professor Zarowin earned his B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977, and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1981 and 1985. He has won numerous research awards, including the New York University Presidential Fellowship, the Peat Marwick National Research Fellowship, and the Glucksman Institute Fellowship.

Professor Zarowin's research focuses on the relation between stock market prices and financial accounting data. He has studied how and why this relation varies over time and across firms, and how factors such as firms, regulators, and the economic environment affect the relation. Professor Zarowin's recent work deals with the extent to which stock prices reflect firms' future prospects, and how this is affected by firm's disclosures, accounting choices, and regulations.

Professor Zarowin has published articles in a wide range of journals, including the *Journal of Accounting Research*, the *Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review*, the *Review of Accounting Studies, The Journal of Finance*, and the *Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis*. He teaches Financial Accounting and Financial Reporting and Analysis in the undergraduate and MBA programs at the Stern School.

Accounting

- Accounting Liability
- Earnings Management
- Financial Accounting
- Financial Reporting
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Shareholder Issues/Activism
- Valuation

- Accounting information, Security prices, Regulation

- Oswald, D., A. Simpson, and P. Zarowin (2022)

[Capitalization vs Expensing and the Behavior of R&D Expenditures](http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2733838)

Review of Accounting Studies, 27 (4), 1199 – 1232
- Bonacchi, M., A. Marra, and P. Zarowin (2019)

[Organizational Structure and Earnings Quality of Private and Public Firms](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-019-09495-y)

Review of Accounting Studies 24(3), 1066-1113

[https://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/static/cv/cv\_pz1\_20250904.pdf](https://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/static/cv/cv_pz1_20250904.pdf)