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Pepa Kraft joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Accounting in July 2010. She has taught a course entitled "Financial Statement Analysis" in the M.B.A. program and is now teaching "Principles of Financial Accounting" in the undergraduate program.

Professor Kraft's research focuses on credit markets, credit rating agencies, off-balance sheet financing, debt contracting, and disclosure issues in financial reporting related to debt.

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Ilan Guttman joined New York University Stern School of Business in July 2013 as an Associate Professor of Accounting. Professor Guttman teaches courses at the graduate and doctoral levels.

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Dan Gode is a Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting at New York University Stern School of Business. Professor Gode teaches courses in corporate financial accounting.

Professor Gode has been with NYU Stern since 1998. He was voted as the "Professor of the Year" in 2002. His primary research areas include financial analysis, legal liability of firms, valuation, managerial accounting, and performance measurement. Professor Gode has been published in theQuarterly Journal of Economics and the Journal of Political Economy.

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Fabrizio Ferri joined New York University Stern School of Business as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting, Taxation and Business Law in September 2009.

Prior to joining NYU Stern, Professor Ferri was an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School in the accounting and management unit, where he taught the first-year M.B.A. course "Financial Reporting and Control." Prior to that, he worked at Stern Stewart & Co., in the Economic Value Added Group, advising firms on performance measurement and incentive compensation issues.

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Yiwei Dou joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Accounting in July 2012.

Professor Dou's research interests relate to financial reporting quality, debt contracting and real effects of accounting. His current work explores the impact of the debt-contracting value of borrowers' accounting information on the likelihood of private debt renegotiation, as well as the implication of renegotiation for borrowing firms' investment efficiency.

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Christine Cuny joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Accounting in July 2013.

Professor Cuny studies financial disclosure incentives. Her recent work looks at the effect of risk on disclosure and the consequences of technological innovation in the dissemination of information in the municipal bond market.

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Bala K. R. Balachandran is a professor of accounting and operations management at New York University Stern School of Business. He teaches courses in management accounting, management control systems and financial accounting.

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Mary Billings joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Accounting in 2007.

Prior to joining Stern, she worked as a consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP. In her research, Professor Billings explores the role that accounting information plays in shaping the behavior of corporate insiders, institutional investors and capital market participants.

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John Bildersee is a Professor of Accounting at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He earned a Ph.D. in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago.

His research focuses on financial accounting and on fixed income securities.

He has published articles in the Journal of Finance and the Accounting Review and other journals. He teaches financial analysis, financial reporting and mergers and acquisition accounting in the undergraduate and graduate programs.

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