Assistant Professor | Distinguished Teaching Fellow
Accounting
About
Omri Even-Tov is an Assistant Professor in the Accounting Group. His research focuses on empirical capital markets and addresses issues related to the information content of earnings, corporate debt, corporate governance, information intermediaries, and mergers and acquisitions. His current research examines investor sentiment; the relation between stock prices and the cost of debt; information leakage prior to credit-rating changes; and the conflict of interest that exists between managers and shareholders over whether to accept acquisition offers.
Even-Tov has also been recognized for his significant accomplishments as an educator. In his second year as an Assistant Professor, he was honored with Berkeley Haas’ Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching for his MBA financial accounting course. He won the same award the following year for his teaching in the PhD program. In 2018, he was included on Poets & Quants’ list of the “World’s Best 40 Business School Professors Under 40.”
In collaboration with Prof. Jennifer Chatman, Even-Tov developed a new Extreme Leadership course in 2017 where students test their leadership skills on treks to the Andes and Patagonia. Even-Tov has also developed a number of television game show formats with his brother. Their formats have aired in multiple countries, including Brazil, the U.K., and Turkey.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Accounting and Financial Disclosures
- Economic Consequences of Regulatory Changes
- Corporate Debt
- Capital Markets
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- The Information Content of Credit Rating Changes
- Christine Cuny, Omri Even-Tov, Edward M. Watts. From Implicit to Explicit: The Impact of Disclosure Requirements on Hidden Transaction Costs. Journal of Accounting Research.
October 2020 - Omri Even-Tov and N. Bugra Ozel. What Moves Stock Prices Ahead of Credit Rating Changes?. Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming).
2020 - David Aboody, Omri Even-Tov, Reuven Lehavy, and Brett Trueman. Overnight Returns As a Measure of Firm-Specific Investor Sentiment. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
2018 - Omri Even-Tov. When Does the Bond Price Reaction to Earnings Announcements Predict Future Stock Returns?. Journal of Accounting and Economics.
2017
- The Economic Consequences of GASB Financial Statement Disclosure
Omri Even-Tov, Michael Dambra, and James P. Naughton (2020) - Call Me by Your Name: The Effect of Analyst-CEO First Name Commonality on Analyst Forecast Accuracy
Omri Even-Tov, Kevin Huang, and Brett Trueman (2020) - What Drives Acquisition Premiums and Why do Targets Reject Offers? – Evidence from Failed Acquisition Offers
Omri Even-Tov, David Aboody, and Jieyin Zeng (2019) - How Do Representations and Warranties Matter? Risk Allocation in Acquisition Agreements
Omri Even-Tov, James Ryans, and Steven Davidoff Solomon (2020)
At Haas since 2015
2015 – present, Assistant Professor, Haas Accounting Group
- Ad-hoc reviewer: Management Science, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, American Accounting Association annual meeting, Journal of International Review of Financial Analysis, International Journal of Financial Studies, EAA 2020 Annual Conference
Poets & Quants’ 2018 Best 40 Under 40 Professors
April 2018
Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, PhD Program
2017 – 2018
Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, MBA Program
2016 – 2017
- Dealbook Newsletter, The New York Times, 01/22/2021
- Covid-19 Pandemic Puts Squeeze on Pension Plans, The Wall Street Journal, 12/09/2020
- What Happens When CEOs and Stock Analysts Share a First Name, Wall Street journal, 06/05/2020
- Let’s Have Tim Cover Apple and Jeff Analyze Amazon, Wall Street journal, 04/15/2020
- 2018 best 40 under 40 professors: Omri Even-Tov, U.C. Berkeley (Haas), Poets & Quants, 04/23/2018
- Extreme Leadership treks in Patagonia, Andes test MBA students’ skills, Berkeley Haas News, 04/02/2018
- How Bond Markets Can Predict Moves in Stocks, Bloomberg, 07/31/2017
- How after-hours trading sheds light on investor sentiment, Science Daily, 02/27/2017
- Financial Accounting, Core MBA Class
- Empirical Capital Market Research, PhD program
- Extreme Leadership, Elective MBA/EWMBA Class