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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.

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Baruch Lev is the Philip Bardes Professor of Accounting and Finance at New York University Stern School of Business. In his current positions, Professor Lev teaches courses in accounting, financial analysis and investor relations.

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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.