Research Seminars

Each semester our accounting faculty brings to campus leading scholars and researchers to discuss current topics of interest. They give students and faculty the opportunity to expand their knowledge and network.

Upcoming Events

Apr

Accounting Seminar with Prof Kristen Green Valenti… (opens in a new tab)

Friday April 18, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
C330

Apr

Accounting Seminar with Prof Laurel Mazur (opens in a new tab)

Friday April 25, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
C330

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of Paper	Time
2/24/2023	Sean Wang (opens in a new tab)	Southern Methodist University	Bad News, Minority CEOs and Analyst Valuations	2:00-3:30 PM, RM N500
3/10/2023	Teri Yohn (opens in a new tab)	Emory University	Measuring portfolio gains from earnings announcement trading signals	2:00-3:30 PM, RM N370
3/17/2023	K.R. Subramanyam (opens in a new tab)	USC	Banking on Lenders: Lender Monitoring as a Substitute for Equity Blockholder Monitoring	2:00-3:30 PM, RM N270
3/24/2023	Yao Lu (opens in a new tab)	Cornell	The impact of climate hazards on banks’ long-run performance	Postponed – new date TBA
4/7/2023	Stanimir Markov (opens in a new tab)	UT Dallas	The Democratization of Earnings Calls’	2:00-3:30 PM, RM N470
4/14/2023	Matthew Lyle (opens in a new tab)	Emory University	Valuation and Returns on Stock Return Volatility	2:00-3:30 PM, RM N470
4/21/2023	Aiyesha Dey (opens in a new tab)	Harvard University		2:00-3:30 PM, RM N370
4/28/2023	Matthew Kubic (opens in a new tab)	UT Austin		Postponed – new date TBA
9/16/2022	Qi Chen (opens in a new tab)	Duke	The decision relevance of loan fair values for depositors	2:10pm – 3:30pm, Room C330
9/30/2022	Thomas Bourveau (opens in a new tab)	Columbia Business School	Human capital disclosures	2:10pm – 3:30pm, Room C330
10/7/2022	Philip Wang (opens in a new tab)	University of Florida	Do Information Processing Costs Matter to Regulators? Evidence from the U.S. Shadow Bank Supervision	2:10pm – 3:30pm, Room C330
10/21/2022	Brandon Lock (opens in a new tab)	CUNY	Optimistic Gatekeepers: Credit Rating Optimism around M&A Deals	2:10pm – 3:30pm, Zoom
10/28/2022	Suresh Nallareddy (opens in a new tab)	Duke	Capitalization of Intellectual Property Products and Distribution of Income between Labor and Capital	2:10pm – 3:30pm, Room C330
11/18/2022	John Barrios (opens in a new tab)	Washington University, St. Louis	A New Era of Midnight Mergers: Antitrust Risk and Investor Disclosures	2:10pm – 3:30pm, Room C320
11/1/2019	Hollis Skaife	UC Davis	Corporate Lobbying and Ceo Pay	2:10pm – 3:30pm, Room C320
10/25/2019	Allan Timmermann	UCSD Finance	TBD	2:10pm – 3:30pm, Room C320
10/4/2019	Brian Bushee	Wharton	TBD	2:10pm – 3:30pm, Room C320
9/27/2019	Volker Laux	UT Austin	TBD	2:10pm – 3:30pm, Room C320
4/26/2019	Thomas Pfeiffer	University of Vienna	tbd	tbd
4/5/2019	Frank Zhang	Yale University	The Death of Stock Splits: An Increase in the Costs to Split	2:10pm – 3:30pm, Room C330
3/22/2019	Michael Dambra	University at Buffalo	tbd	tbd
2/15/2019	Jonathan Glover (opens in a new tab)	Columbia University	Accounting Consent and Relational Contracting	2:10pm – 3:30pm, Room C330
12/07/2018	Ivan Marinovic (opens in a new tab)	Stanford University	Asset Pricing Implications of Strategic Trading and Activism	Room C320;Seminar at 4:10-5:30pm
11/30/2018	Eli Bartov (opens in a new tab)	New York University	Corporate Social Responsibility and the Market Reaction to Negative Events: Evidence from Inadvertent and Fraudulent Restatement Announcements	Room C320;Seminar at 2:00-3:30pm
11/9/2018	Steve Monahan (opens in a new tab)	INSEAD University	Price Informativeness in the Time Series and the Cross Section	Room C320;Seminar at 2:00-3:30pm
10/26/2018	Pervin Shroff (opens in a new tab)	Minnesota University	Fair value accounting: Consequences of booking market-driven goodwill impairment	Room C320;Seminar at 2:00-3:30pm
06/19/2018	James A. Ohlson	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Researchers’ Data Analysis Choices: An Excess of False Positives?	11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, N340+N344
09/15/2017	Mirko Heinle	Wharton	“Investment Tinder: A theory of rational investment screens”	2:10 – 3:30 PM, C320
10/5/2017	Rodrigo Verdi	MIT	“The Feedback Effect of Disclosure Externalities”	2:10 – 3:30 PM, location TBA
10/20/2017	Joanna Wu	Rochester	“Is Silence Golden? Real Effects of Mandatory Disclosure”	2:10 – 3:30 PM, C320
10/27/2017	Peter Joos	INSEAD	“Looking Under the Hood: Quantitative vs Qualitative Inputs to Analyze Forecasts of Fundamental Risk”	2:10 – 3:30 PM, C320
05/26/2017	Carlo Maria Gallimberti	Boston College	“Equity market use of banks’ private information: Evidence from Analysts’ Forecast Revisions around Loan Contracts Disclosures”	2:10 – 3:30 PM
05/19/2017	Phil Shane	College of William & Mary	“Do Financial Analysts Generate Value-Relevant Interpretive Information from Analysis of 10-K Filings?”	10:30 – 12:00 PM
04/21/2017	Ryan Ball	University of Michigan	“Does it Pay to ‘Be Like Mike’? An Empirical Test of Dynamic Relative Performance Evaluation”	2:10 – 3:30 PM
04/07/2017	Regina Wittenberg Moerman	USC	“Making Sense of Soft Information: Interpretation Bias and Ex-post Lending Outcomes”	2:10 – 3:30 PM
12/02/2016	Henry Laurion and Sam Tan	UC Berkeley	“Managers’ Focus on Non-GAAP Earnings: Implications for Real Activities and Accounting Choices” and “Accounting Choices and the Legal Environment: the Impact of Dura Pharmaceuticals v. Broudo“	2:10 – 3:30 PM, Rm C320
11/17/2016	Clive Lennnox	USC	“Earnings Management, Audit Adjustments, and the Financing of Corporate Acquisitions: Evidence from China”	2:10 – 3:30 PM, Rm C320
10/28/2016	Stephen Penman	Columbia	“Accounting-based Estimates of the Cost of Capital: A Third Way”	2:10 – 3:30 PM, Rm C320
10/14/2016	Ilan Guttman	NYU	“Optimal Debt Contracts in the Presence of Performance Manipulation”	2:10 – 3:30 PM, Rm C320
09/16/2016	Annika Wang	Berkeley Haas	“R&D Overinvestment around Seasoned Equity Offerings: Evidence from High-technology Industries”	2:10 – 3:30 PM, Rm C320
09/09/2016	Ilia Dichev	Emory University	“Accrual Duration”	2:10 – 3:30 PM, Rm C320
09/02/2016	Eric Floyd	UC San Diego	“The Real Effects of Mandated Information on Social Responsibility in Financial Reports: Evidence from Mine-Safety Records”	2:10 – 3:30 PM, Rm C320
08/26/2016	Qi Chen	Duke University	“Accounting Measurements of Assests and Earnings and Investors’ Pricing of Firm Assests”	2:10 – 3:30 PM, Rm C320
04/29/2016	Jiri Novak	Charles University (Prague)	“Competitive Threats, Information Asymmetry, and Insider Trading”	2:00 – 3:30 PM, Rm C330
04/22/2016	David Aboody	UCLA	“Executive Compensation and Operating Leverage”	2:00 – 3:30 PM, Rm C330
04/08/2016	Henry Friedman	UCLA	“The Impact of Discretionary DIsclosure on Financial Reporting Systems: an Extension of Bayesian Persuasion”	2:00 – 3:30 PM, Rm C330
04/01/2016	Ted Christensen	University of Georgia	“Earnings Management Proxies: Prudent Business Decisions or Earnings Manipulation?”	2:00 – 3:30 PM, Rm C330
03/04/2016	Wayne Landsman	UNC	Unavailable	2:00 – 3:30 PM, Rm C330
02/12/2016	Partha Mohanram	Toronto	“Fundamental Analysis of Bank Stocks”	2:00 – 3:30 PM, Rm C330
11/20/2015	Rafael Rogo	University of British Columbia	“SEC Monitoring of Foreign Firms’ Disclosures”	2:10 – 3:30 PM, Rm C320
10/23/2015	Terrence Blackburne	University of Washington	“Regulatory Oversight and Reporting Incentives: Evidence from SEC Budget Allocations”	2:10 – 3:30 PM, Rm C320
09/18/2015	Asher Curtis	University of Washington	“The use of adjusted earnings in performance evaluation”	2:10 – 3:30 PM, Rm C320
05/1/2015	Paul Zarowin	NYU School of Business	“SFAS 142, Conditional Conservatism, and Acquisition Profitability and Risk”	Cheit 330 from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
04/24/2015	Lakshmanan Shivakumar	London Business School	“Why Do Aggregate Earnings Shocks Predict Future Inflation Shocks?”	Cheit 330 from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
04/3/2015	Mary Barth	Stanford Graduate School of Business	“What Do Accruals Tell Us About Future Cash Flows?”	Cheit 330 from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
03/27/2015	Malachy English	Haas School of Business	“Accounting for Generated vs. Contributed Change in the Enterprise Value”	Cheit 330 from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
03/13/2015	Miguel Minutti-Meza	University of Miami School of Business	“How is expertise acquired and shared by professional accountants? Evidence from Italian statutory auditors’ networks and tax avoidance.”	Cheit 330 from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
02/27/2015	Ronald Espinosa	Haas School of Business	“Financial Constraints, Corporate Investment and Future Profitability”	Cheit 330 from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
11/14/2014	Zahn Bozanic	Ohio State University	“Financial Statement Errors: Evidence from the Distributional Properties of Financial Statement Numbers”	Cheit Hall Room C230 2-3:30PM
10/31/2014	Max Hewitt	Indiana University	“Firm-specific Estimates of Differential Persistence and Their Incremental Usefulness for Forecasting and Valuation”	Cheit Hall Room C230 2-3:30PM PhD Students: 4-4:30pm in F589
10/17/2014	John Core	MIT	“Why do some CEOs hold so much equity?”	Cheit Hall Room C230 2-3:30PM
09/19/2014	Jonathan Glover	Carnegie Mellon Univeristy	“Relational Contracts With and Between Agents”	Cheit Hall Room C230 2-3:30PM
09/12/2014	Itay Kama	University of Michigan	“Conditional Persistence of Earnings Components and Accounting Anomalies”	Cheit Hall Room C230 2-3:30PM
05/09/2014	Yontae Kim	Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University	“Common auditors in M&A transactions”	Cheit Hall Room C250 11:00-12:30AM
04/04/2014	Paige Patrick	Foster School of Business, University of Washington	“Renegotiations of target CEOs”	Cheit Hall Room C330 2:00-3:30PM
12/06/2013	K.R. Subramanyam	Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California	“Do options price predictable patterns in future stock returns? Evidence from accounting anomalies”	Cheit Hall Room C320 2:00PM-3:30PM
10/18/2013	Siew Hong Teoh	University of California, Irvine	“Limited Attention, Statement of Cash Flow Disclosure, and the Valuation of Accruals”	Cheit Hall, C320 2:00PM – 3:30PM
10/04/2013	Brett Trueman	Anderson School of Management, UCLA	“Firm-Specific Investor Sentiment”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:00PM – 3:30PM
04/12/2013	William M. Cready	University of Texas, Dallas	“Bonus Rigidity and Future Performance theory and Evidence”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:30PM – 4:00PM
09/20/2013	Christopher S. Armstrong	The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	“Abnormal Accruals in Newly Public Companies: Opportunistic Misreporting or Economic Activity?”	Cheit Hall C320, 2:00PM – 3:30PM
12/07/2012	Mary Ellen Carter	Boston College, Carroll School of Management	“Do Shareholders Welcome Court Intervention In CEO Pay Matters?”	Cheit Hall, C320 2:00PM – 3:30PM
11/09/2012	David Erkens	Marshall School of Business, USC	“Affiliated Banker on Board and Conservative Accounting”	Cheit Hall, C320 2:00PM – 3:30PM
10/31/2012	Adair Morse	University of Chicago, UC Berkeley, NBER	“How Pervasive is Corporate Fraud?”	Cheit Hall, C335 2:00PM – 3:30PM
10/25/2012	Maureen McNichols	Stanford University	“Decomposition of the Market-to-Book Ratio”	Cheit Hall, C320 2:00PM – 3:30PM
10/19/2012	Paul Fischer	University of Pennsylvania	“Projected Earnings Fixation”	Cheit Hall, C320 2:00PM – 3:30PM
10/12/2012	Eli Bartov	NYU – Stern	“Does Income Statement Placement Matter to Investors? The Case of Gains/Losses from Early Debt Extinguishment”	Cheit Hall, C320 2:00PM – 3:30PM
09/28/2012	Mark Soliman	University of Washington	“The Sharpest Tool in the Tool Shed: Simultaneous Equations of Financial Statement Management Tools during IPOs”	Cheit Hall, C320 2:00PM – 3:30PM
09/14/2012	Jacob Thomas	Yale University	“Implications of scale invariance in EPS forecast errors”	Cheit Hall, C320 2:00PM – 3:30PM
09/07/2012	Harm Schuett	Haas PhD	“Do Analysts Understand the Relation between Investment Growth and Conservative Accounting?”	Cheit Hall, C320 2:00PM – 3:30PM
08/31/2012	Professor Haresh Sapra	University of Chicago Booth School of Business	“Agency Conflicts, Prudential Regulation, and Marking to Market”	Cheit Hall, C320 2:00PM – 4:00PM
05/18/2012	Harm Schuett	Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	“The Matching Principle: Insights into Earning’s Usefulness to Investors”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:00PM – 3:30PM
05/11/2012	Scott Richardson	Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	“Macro to Micro: Country exposures, firm fundamentals and stock returns”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:00PM – 3:30PM Note: Pre-Seminar (for Accounting PhDs only) is 1-2PM in C132
05/04/2012	Aydin Uysal Estelle Sun	Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	“A Refinement to the Accrual Anomaly” “Earnings Management for Financial Misstatement Firms: An Implication of Discretionary Expenditures”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:00PM – 3:30PM Note: Pre-Seminar (for Accounting PhDs only) is 1-2PM in C132
04/27/2012	Jackie Siriviriyakul Fernando Comiran	Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	“The Use of DuPont Analysis at the Aggregate Level” “Information Advantage or Local GAAP Knowledge? Local vs. Non-local Analyst Forecast Precision”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:30PM – 4:00PM Note: Pre-Seminar (for Accounting PhDs only) is 1-2PM in C132
04/06/2012	Michael J. Jung	Stern School of Business – NYU	“Analyst Interest, Market Visibility, and Stock Returns”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:00PM – 3:30PM
03/02/2012	Suresh Nallaredy	Marshall School of Business – USC	“Does Differential Sensitivity to Aggregate Earnings Shocks Drive Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift?”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:00PM – 3:30PM
02/10/2012	Katie McDermott	Kenan-Flagler Business School – UNC at Chapel Hill	“Financial Reporting Quality and Investment in Corporate Social Responsibility?”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:00PM – 3:30PM
02/03/2012	Eric So	Stanford Graduate School of Business	“A New Approach to Predicting Analyst Forecast Errors: Do Investors Overweight Analyst Forecasts?”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:00PM – 3:30PM
01/27/2012	Mark Maffett	Wharton School of Business, University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School	“Who Benefits from Corporate Opacity? International Evidence from Informed Trading by Institutional Investors”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:00PM – 3:30PM
01/13/2012	Henry Friedman	Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania	“Under pressure: reporting costs and managerial power in the CEO-CFO setting”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:00PM – 3:30PM
12/09/2011	Fernando Comiran	Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	“Local vs. Non-local Analyst Forecast Precision: Evidence of ADR firms”	Cheit Hall, C320 2:00PM – 4:00PM
12/09/2011	Subprasiri Siriviriyakul	Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	“Re-Examination of Real Earnings Management to Avoid Losses”	Cheit Hall, C320 2:00PM – 4:00PM
12/02/2011	Maureen McNichols	Stanford University	Unavailable	Unavailable
10/31/2011	Harm Schuett	Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	“The Matching Principle: Insights into Earning’s Usefulness to Investors”	Cheit Hall, C320 2:00PM-3:30PM
10/28/2011	Yaniv and Panos	Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	“Accounting Earnings and Future Macroeconomic Growth”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:30PM-4:00PM
10/20/2011	Estelle Sun	Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	“Earnings Management for Financial Misstatement Firms: An Implication of Discretionary Expenditures”	Cheit Hall, C335 11:00AM-12:30PM
10/13/2011	Ayden Uysal	Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	“A Refinement to the Accrual Anomaly”	Cheit Hall, C220 4:00PM-5:30PM
09/23/2011	Natalya Khimich	Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	“Cash flow and discount rate news estimation: which method to choose?”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:00PM-3:30PM
09/16/2011	Eric Allen	Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	“Why do IPO firms record a full deferred tax valuation allowance?”	Cheit Hall, C330 3:00PM-4:00PM
09/02/2011	Gilad Livne	Cass Business School	“Mandatory Auditor Rotation, Accounting Conservatism and the Mandatory Adoption of IFRS”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:30PM-4:00PM
04/29/2011	Haifeng You	School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	“Valuation-Driven Profit Transfer among Corporate Segments”	Cheit Hall, C330 3:00PM-4:00PM
04/22/2011	Eric C. So	Graduate School of Business, Stanford University	“A New Approach to Predicting Analyst Forecast Errors: Implications for Investment Decisions?”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:00PM-3:30PM
01/21/2011	Yaniv Konchitchki	Marshall School of Business, USCA	“Does Superior Knowledge Management Increase Shareholder Value?”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:00PM-3:30PM
12/03/2010	Yuan Estelle Sun	Berkeley Haas PhD	“Real Earnings Management for Financial Misstatement Firms”	Cheit Hall, C330 1:00PM-2:30PM
12/03/2010	Karl Mueller	Penn State	“Strategic Disclosure of 10b5-1 Trading Plans”	Cheit Hall, C330 2:00PM-3:30PM
11/19/2010	Asher Curtis	University of Utah	“The Comparability of Accounting Rates of Return Under Historical Cost Accounting”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
11/05/2010	Madhay Rajan	Stanford University	“Conservation Correction for the Market-to-Book Ratio”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
10/15/2010	Gergio Serafeim	Harvard University	“Forecasting Profitability Around the World”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
10/8/2010	Panos Patatoukas	UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business	“The Impact of Earnings Surprises on Stock Returns: Theory and Evidence”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:30PM-04:00PM
09/17/2010	Steve Penman	Columbia University	“Returns to Buying Earnings and Book Value: Accounting for Growth and Risk”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
05/07/2010	Kevin Li	Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	“Has Goodwill Accounting Gone Bad?”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:30PM-04:00PM
05/07/2010	Eric Allen	Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	“The entity choice anomaly: Quantifying the cost of organizing loss-generating startup firms as Corporations”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:30PM-04:00PM
04/30/2010	Seungmin Chee	Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley	“The Information Content of Commercial Banks’ Fair Value Disclosures of Loans under SFAS No. 107”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
12/04/2009	Anne Beyer	Stanford University	“Capital Structure, Cost of Capital, and Voluntary Disclosures”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
11/20/2009	Nir Yehuda	Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University	“The Economic Consequences of Perk Disclosure”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
10/23/2009	Rodrigo Verdi	MIT Sloan School of Management	“The Benefits of Financial Statement Comparability”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
10/16/2009	Aiyesha Dey	University of Chicago Booth School of Business	“Determinants and Implications of Board Leadership Structure”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
09/25/2009	Devin Shanthikumar	Harvard Business School	“Geographic Location, Media Coverage and Investor Reactions”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
09/11/2009	Mort Pincus	University of California, Irvine	“Book-Tax Differences, Uncertainty about Information Quality, and Cost of Capital”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
04/24/2009	Ilia Dichev	Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan	“Higher Risk, Lower Returns: What Hedge Fund Investors Really Earn”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
02/06/2009	Kai Sandner	University of Munich, Munich School of Management	“Differences in Social Preferences: Are They Profitable for the Firm?”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
11/14/2008	Zvi Singer	Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University	“Managerial Discretion and the Reversal of Abnormal Accruals”	Cheit Hall, C320 02:00PM-03:30PM
11/07/2008	Bill Mayhew	Fuqua School of Business, Duke University	“The Power of Voice: Managerial Affective States and Future Firm Performance”	Cheit Hall, C320 02:00PM-03:30PM
04/18/2008	Marlene Plumlee	University of Utah	“An Analysis of the Underlying Causes of Restatements”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
04/11/2008	Thomas Hemmer	University of Houston	“Stewardship and Value Relevance Implications of ACcrual Accounting Systems”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
03/21/2008	Cathy Shakespeare	University of Michigan	“The Limits of Empire: CEO Compensation and its Link to Acquisitions… and Diverstitures”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
02/29/2008	Nahum Melumad	Columbia University	“Operating Profit Variation Analysis: Implications for Future Earnings and Equity Values”	Cheit Hall, C330 02:00PM-03:30PM
12/14/2007	Kevin Li, Kwang Lee, Seungmin Chee, Xue Shuang	Haas School of Business	“Expected Holding of Cash, Future Performance and Stock Returns,” “Summary of Research in Progress,” “Revisiting Negative Special Items,” “Are Cash Flows Managed? Empirical Evidence from Quarterly Financial Statements of Listed Chinese Firms”	Cheit Hall, C320 02:00PM- 03:30PM
12/07/2007	Richard Sloan	Barclay’s Global Investors	“Investor Recognition and Stock Returns”	Cheit Hall, C320 01:00PM- 02:15PM
11/30/2007	Michelle Hanlon	University of Michigan	“The Effects of Managers on Corporate Tax Avoidance”	Cheit Hall, C320 02:00PM- 03:30PM
11/01/2007	Qintao Fan	Haas School of Business	“Hurdle Rate and Return-Enhancing Effort”	Cheit Hall, C330 01:00PM- 02:30PM
11/02/2007	Guochang Zhang	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	“Relative Firm Profitability and Stop Price Sensitivity to Aggregate Information”	Cheit Hall, C320 01:30PM- 03:00PM
09/28/2007	Peter Demerjian	Goizueta Business School, Emory University	“The Role of Debt Covenants in Limiting Operating Performance Risk: Evidence from Private Loan Agreements “	Cheit Hall, C320 02:00- 03:30PM
09/21/2007	Shai Levi	Haas School of Business	“Conservatism in Analyst Forecast Revisions NOTE: This paper will not be distributed by email, but will be available at the seminar. “	Cheit Hall, C320 02:00- 03:30PM
09/14/2007	Sandra Chamberlain	University of British Columbia	“Variation in the Use of Debt Covenants in Public Debt Over Time: The Role of Borrower Reputation and Accounting Quality”	Cheit Hall, C320 01:30 PM- 03:00PM
05/04/2007	Haifeng You	Haas School of Business	” A Study of Firms Surrounding the Threshold of Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Compliance”	Cheit Hall, C335 02:30- 03:30PM
04/19/2007	Nicole Johnson	Haas School of Business	“Dual Transfer Prices with Unknown Costs and Market Demand “	S518 03:00- 05:00PM
03/16/2007	Pierre Liang	Carnegie-Mellon University	“Optimal Team Size and Monitoring in Organizations”	Cheit Hall, C325 01:00- 2:30PM
03/09/2007	Rajiv Banker	Temple University	“Strategic Position, Value Creation, and Performance Evaluation in Executive Compensation”	Cheit Hall, C325 1:00PM- 2:30PM
02/09/2007	Irem Tuna	The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	“Management Forecasts, Disclosure Quality, and Market Efficiency”	Cheit Hall, C325 1:00- 2:30pm
02/02/2007	Christo Karuna	University of California, Irvine	“CEO Reputation and Corporate Governance”	Cheit Hall, C325 01:00- 2:30 pm
11/03/2006	Paul Newman	University of Texas, Austin	“Delegation to Encourage Communication of Problems”	Cheit Hall, C330 01:00- 2:30 pm
10/20/2006	Stefan Reichelstein	Stanford University	“Conservatism Growth and Return on Investment”	Cheit Hall, C330 01:00- 2:30 pm
10/13/2006	Haresh Sapra	University of Chicago	“A Theory of Auditor Bias and Audit Quality”	Cheit Hall, C330 01:00- 2:30 pm
09/15/2006	Maria Nondorf	Haas School of Business	“The SEC Comment Letter Process and its Effects on the Quality of Disclosure for IPO Firms”	Cheit Hall, C330 12:00- 2:30 pm
05/05/2006	Charles M. C. Lee	Global Head of Equity Research, Barclays Global Investors	“Tunneling in China: The Surprisingly Pervasive Use of Corporate Loans to Extract Funds from Chinese Listed Companies”	Cheit Hall, C330 1:00- 2:30 pm
04/28/2006	James Ohslon	W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University	“Dividend Policy Irrelevancy and the Construct of Earnings”	Cheit Hall, C330 1:00- 2:30pm
04/21/2006	Bill Rogerson	Northwestern University	“Inter-Temporal Cost Allocation and Investment Decisions”	Cheit Hall, C330 1:00- 2:30pm
04/13/2006	Shivakumar Lakshmanan	University of Chicago	“Earnings Quality at Initial Public Offerings: Managerial Opportunism, or Public-firm Conservatism?”	Cheit Hall, C220 1:00- 2:30pm
02/10/2006	Eli Amir	London Business School	“The Effects of Disclosure, Medium, Timing, and Detail on Market Reactions to Earning Announcements”	Cheit Hall, C330 12:30- 2:00pm
02/2/2006	Carol Marquardt	New York University	“SEC Scrutiny and the Evolution of Non-GAAP Reporting”	Cheit Hall, F320 12:30- 2:00pm
12/13/2005	Desmond Tang	Haas School of Business	“Comparing the Quality of Accruals for Alternative Summary Performance Measures in the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Industry”	Cheit Hall, C325 10:00- 11:30am
12/9/2005	Zvi Singer	Haas School of Business	“Discretionary Financial Reporting: Its Ability to Mislead Investors and Changes over Time in an IPO Setting”	Cheit Hall, C250 10:00- 11:30am
12/2/2005	Frank Gigler	University of Minnesota	“On the Economic Value of Limiting Commitment in Agencies with Renegotiation”	Cheit Hall, C110 1:00- 2:30pm
11/18/2005	Tim Baldenius	Columbia University	“Non-Financial Performance Measures as Coordination Devices”	Cheit Hall, C110 1:00- 2:30pm
10/19/2005	Madhav Rajan	Stanford University	“Objective versus Subjective Performance”	Cheit Hall, S518 1:00- 2:30pm
10/14/2005	Richard Sloan	University of Michigan	“Investor Recognition and Stock Returns”	Cheit Hall, C110 1:00- 2:30pm
10/7/2005	Chandra Kanodia		“Cash Flow Hedges: Assessing the Information Content of Mark-to-Market and Historical Cost Accounting”	Cheit Hall, C250 10:00- 11:30am
09/30/2005	Mohan Venkata chalam	Duke University	“Accelerated Vesting of Employee Stock Options in Anticipation of FAS 123-R”	Cheit Hall, C110 1:00- 2:30pm
05/6/2005	Steve Huddart	Pennsylvania State University	“Jeopardy, Non-Public Information, and Insider Trading around SEC 10K and10Q Filings”	Cheit Hall, C110 1:00- 2:30pm
04/29/2005	Patty Dechow	University of Michigan	“The Persistence of Earnings and Cash Flows and the Role of Special Items: Implications for the Accrual Anomaly”	Cheit Hall, C325 12:30- 2:00pm
04/8/2005	Sri Sridharan	Northwestern University	“Determinants of Audit Failure”	Cheit Hall, C110 12:00- 1:30pm
04/1/2005	Siew Hong Teoh	Ohio State University	“Accruals and NOA Anomalies: Risk or Mispricing”	Cheit Hall, C110 1:00- 2:30pm
12/03/2004	Zhaoyang Gu	Carnegie Mellon University	“Measuring the Precision of Analysts’ Private and Common Information: Generalization and an Application”	Cheit Hall, C110 12:30- 2:00pm
11/19/2004	Teri Yohn	Georgetown University	“Does Industry-level Analysis Improve Profitability Forecasts?”	Cheit Hall, C110 12:30- 2:00pm
11/17/2004	Shijun Cheng	University of Michigan	“Accounting versus Stock Based Performance Incentives: An Agency Solution or an Agency Problem?”	F320 12:30- 2:00pm
10/29/2004	Elizabeth Demers	University of Rochester	“IPO Failure Prediction: Are There Differences in the “New Economy””	Cheit Hall, C110 12:30- 2:00pm

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