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Joshua Ronen is a professor of accounting at New York University Stern School of Business and co-editor of the Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting. Professor Ronen teaches courses in managerial accounting, financial accounting, advanced topics in financial accounting, and financial statements analysis.

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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.

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Joshua Livnat is a Professor Emeritus of Accounting at New York University Stern School of Business. Professor Livnat teaches courses in e-commerce, financial statement analysis, and financial accounting.

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April Klein is a professor of accounting at New York University Stern School of Business. Professor Klein teaches courses in financial accounting, financial statement analysis, and mergers and acquisitions. She also teaches financial accounting at the New York University Law School.

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Joshua Livnat is a Professor Emeritus of Accounting at New York University Stern School of Business. Professor Livnat teaches courses in e-commerce, financial statement analysis, and financial accounting.

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

Professor Xue's research applies fully rational, economics-based models to observed accounting practices and institutions that conventional thinking and existing theories have difficulties explaining. In a recent paper studying financial analysts, Professor Xue reconciled independent analysts' disciplining role over affiliated analysts' biased forecasting behavior with the observed herding behavior among financial analysts.

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

Professor Tang's research interests center on corporate disclosure as it relates to capital market participants such as financial analysts. He is particularly interested in investigating the rationales behind earnings guidance and how market participants understand these rationales. His current research explores guidance consistency, a new dimension of voluntary disclosure in accounting research.

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Ron Shalev joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Accounting, Taxation and Business Law in September 2012, after being a Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting during the 2011-12 academic year.

Professor Shalev's research interests include the causes and effects of mergers and acquisitions, intangible assets, and the effect of performance measures in compensation contracts on managerial discretion and accounting choices.

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Stephen G. Ryan is the KPMG Faculty Fellow, Professor of Accounting, and Director of the Accounting Doctoral Program at New York University Stern School of Business. Professor Ryan teaches two unique financial accounting and analysis courses developed at Stern: Analysis of Financial Institutions and Financial Instruments (MBA program) and Accounting for Financial Instruments (MS in Accounting program). He also teaches in the doctoral program.

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Xiaojing Meng joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Accounting in July 2011.

Professor Meng's research interests include financial reporting, corporate governance and debt covenants. She is particularly interested in how different parties strategically communicate their information, and how accounting information is used in firms' and investors' decision-making processes. Her current work examines how analysts' reputational concerns affect their incentives to acquire information.