Accounting | Seminar Series

Seminar Series

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

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

Fall 2024

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

Spring 2025

Date:	Speaker:	Topic:
February 21	Darren Bernard Foster School of Business, University of Washington	TBA
March 7	Joseph Weber Sloan School of Management, MIT	TBA
March 14	Kevin Chen The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University	TBA
March 21	Aiyesha Dey Harvard Business School, Harvard University	TBA

Past Seminars

Date:	Speaker:	Topic:
March 1	Rahul Vashishtha Fuqua School of Business, Duke University	Earnings Information Spillovers and Depositor Contagion
March 8	Davide Cianciaruso New Economic School	Earnings Increases as Costly Signals: Theory and Evidence
March 29	Regina Wittenberg Moerman Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California	Non-Fundamental Loan Renegotiations
April 5	Zachary Kaplan Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis	Uncovering fund trade: Evidence from fund returns around portfolio disclosures

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Date:	Speaker:	Topic:
September 23	Wan Wongsunwai Northwestern University	Debtholder Responses to Shareholder Activism
September 30	Roger Willett University of Tasmania, Australia	Parameter Heterogeneity Multiplicative Models In Regressions
October 7	Jeffrey Ng MIT	The Role of Financial Reporting Transparency
October 14	Preeti Choudhary Georgetown University	Form 10-K Timing and Information Asymmetry
November 11	Sophia Hamm Ohio State	Having Accounting Standards Affected Deal Structures in Mergers and Acquisitions?
December 2	Partha Mohanram University of Toronto	The Role of Analysts' Cash Flow Forecasts in the Decline of the Accruals Anomaly
December 9	Ed Owens University of Rochester	Window Dressing of Short-term Borrowings

Department of Accounting | Seminar Series

Seminar Series

Fall 2024

Spring 2025

Past Seminars