Associate Professor | Distinguished Teaching Fellow | Founder and Faculty Director, Berkeley Fintech Program | Lead Fintech Researcher, Wells Fargo Lab for Banking & Financial Services
Accounting
Pioneering research on financial-based solutions to world's grand challenges
About
Prof. Konchitchki is an expert in the interdisciplinary links between capital markets, finance, macroeconomy, financial & information systems technology, and financial reporting.
He is a full-time tenured associate professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. His PhD is from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and he also holds a CPA license and an MSc from Stanford’s Statistics. Before receiving his PhD, he worked a number of years as a CPA and Senior Financial Analysis Expert for PwC as well as an Economist.
He has vast experience from academic and practitioner perspectives, and he is the founding father of Macro-Accounting, a current research-active field that he has helped establish and coined its term since his PhD days at Stanford. His current research focus is on establishing a new interdisciplinary research field that he calls “Financial-based Solutions to World’s Grand Challenges,” which is benefiting economics, finance, accounting, and related disciplines.
His work focuses on the modeling and resolution of real-life problems and world’s grand challenges with the goal of enhancing decision making. Overall, his research expertise is in corporate financial reporting and analysis, interdisciplinary capital markets, valuation, financial technology (Fintech) & innovation, and macroeconomics.
His work is widely recognized internationally, nationally, and across top schools through awards/honors such as WORLD’S TOP 40 UNDER 40, 2019 NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO ACCOUNTING LITERATURE AWARD, FAVORITE MBA PROFESSORS OF THE CLASS OF 2021, American Accounting Association’s Best Paper Award, UC Berkeley’s Bakar Faculty Fellow, Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Hellman Fellow for Distinguished Research Excellence, Schwabacher Fellow, (more than once) Cheit Award for Distinguished Teaching Excellence, Thompson Teaching & Learning Innovation Award, Stanford’s Jaedicke Merit Award for Outstanding Academic Achievements at Stanford’s GSB, Tel Aviv University’s Special Program for Outstanding Merits & School of Economics’ Research Prize, among others.
His research was published in top-tier academic & professional journals, and he was invited to present at several world’s top academic institutions, hedge funds, investment institutions, & national security intelligence forums (e.g., U.S. Cyber Command).
Expertise and Research Interests
- Inflation; GDP; Interest Rates
- Financial-based Solutions to World’s Grand Challenges
- Interdisciplinary Capital Markets
- Financial Reporting
- Forecasting Firm/Industry/Macro Performance
- Financial Technology (Fintech), Innovation, and Related Decision Making
- Macro-Accounting
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Technology/Information Systems
- Corporate Transparency
- Macroeconomics
- Valuation
- Asset Pricing
- Yaniv Konchitchki. Inflation and Nominal Financial Reporting: Implications for Performance and Stock Prices. The Accounting Review.
2011 - Yaniv Konchitchki and Daniel E. O’Leary. Event Study Methodologies in Information Systems Research. International Journal of Accounting Information Systems.
2011
[Methodologies for interdisciplinary capital markets research in the interface of finance, technology/information systems, and financial reporting] - Yaniv Konchitchki. Accounting Research: Notes and Perspectives. University of Southern California Figueroa Press.
2012 - Yaniv Konchitchki. Accounting and the Macroeconomy: The Case of Aggregate Price-Level Effects on Individual Stocks. Financial Analysts Journal.
2013 - Mark L. DeFond, Yaniv Konchitchki, Jeff L. McMullin, Daniel E. O’Leary. Capital Markets Valuation and Accounting Performance of Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) Award Winners. Decision Support Systems.
2013 - Yaniv Konchitchki and Panos N. Patatoukas. Accounting Earnings and Gross Domestic Product. Journal of Accounting and Economics.
2014
[Awarded the NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO ACCOUNTING LITERATURE AWARD of the American Accounting Association and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants] - Mary E. Barth, Yaniv Konchitchki, Wayne R. Landsman. Cost of Capital and Earnings Transparency. Journal of Accounting and Economics.
2013
[Awarded the BEST PAPER AWARD of the American Accounting Association] - Nissim Aranya, Michael Yampuler, Yaniv Konchitchki. Accounting in Business – IFRS Updated. Tel Aviv University Dyonon Press.
2014
[Textbook for MBA and Accounting undergrad programs. Hebrew] - Yaniv Konchitchki and Panos N. Patatoukas. Taking the Pulse of the Real Economy Using Financial Statement Analysis: Implications for Macro Forecasting and Stock Valuation. The Accounting Review.
2014
[Awarded the NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO ACCOUNTING LITERATURE AWARD of the American Accounting Association and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants] - Yaniv Konchitchki. Accounting Valuation and Cost of Capital Dynamics: Theoretical and Empirical Macroeconomic Aspects. Discussion of Callen. Abacus.
2016
[In addition to discussing some theory aspects of accounting-based valuation, this paper provides a review, extensions, and future directions for the area that Prof. Konchitchki has termed as Macro-Accounting and helped founded it as a growing research field.] - Yaniv Konchitchki, Yan Luo, Mary L. Z. Ma, Feng Wu. Accounting-Based Downside Risk, Cost of Capital, and the Macroeconomy. Review of Accounting Studies.
2016 - Eli Bartov and Yaniv Konchitchki. SEC Filings, Regulatory Deadlines, and Capital Market Consequences. Accounting Horizons.
2017 - Scott Joslin and Yaniv Konchitchki. Interest Rate Volatility, the Yield Curve, and the Macroeconomy. Journal of Financial Economics.
2018
At Haas since 2011
2017 – Present, Associate Professor (tenured), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
2011 – 2017, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
NATIONAL: 2019 NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO ACCOUNTING LITERATURE AWARD (of the American Accounting Association and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)
“Award given…to published research work which has withstood a rigorous process of screening and scrutiny based on certain criteria, such as uniqueness and potential magnitude of contribution to accounting education, practice and/or future accounting research, breadth of potential interest, originality and innovative content, clarity and organization of exposition and soundness and appropriateness of methodology.”
NATIONAL: BEST PAPER AWARD (of the American Accounting Association)
“This annual award honors the paper that best reflects the tradition of academic scholarship in financial accounting and explores research that is relevant to problems facing the accounting profession and standard-setters.”
For his research titled “Cost of Capital and Earnings Transparency.”
E.g.: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/yaniv/2014_AAA_BestPaperAward_AAAPressRelease.pdf
INTERNATIONAL: “Favorite MBA Professors Of The Class Of 2021”
Poets & Quants, see:
https://poetsandquants.com/2021/08/01/favorite-mba-professors-of-the-class-of-2021/2
INTERNATIONAL: “World’s 40 Under 40”
Featured in Fortune, Haas, P&Q. See:
http://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/yaniv-konchitchki-makes-worlds-top-40-under-40
http://fortune.com/2014/02/12/the-40-best-b-school-professors-under-40
UC BERKELEY: Hellman Fellow Fund Award for Distinguished Excellence in Research
Selected from across the university as a “Most Promising Assistant Professor.”
UC BERKELEY: Distinguished Teaching Fellow; Earl F. Cheit Award for Distinguished Excellence in Teaching (awarded more than once)
“Highest teaching award bestowed annually upon instructors at Berkeley Haas.” (Awarded for Core MBA Courses on Financial Reporting)
UC BERKELEY: Schwabacher Fellow
“The Berkeley Haas Executive Committee voted this honor on the basis of ‘outstanding research, exceptional departmental service, unusual scholarly growth, or some combination thereof.'”
E.g.: https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/haas-names-new-schwabacher-fellows
UC BERKELEY: Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow
“A most positive signal for the years to come, the fellowship honors Haas faculty members with a record of accomplishment and a very bright future.”
UC BERKELEY: Club Six Member
Awarded for Teaching Excellence in Core MBA (several teaching years at Haas)
STANFORD GSB: Jaedicke Merit Award for Outstanding Academic Performance in the PhD Program
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
Doctoral Fellowships
USC MARSHALL: Evan C. Thompson Teaching & Learning Innovation Award
For Core MBA Teaching Excellence
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY: Annual Research Prize of the School of Economics (2000)
In addition:
– Several awards for excellence, including full tuition scholarships and stipends during each year of studies.
– Selected to University’s Special Program for Outstanding Students.
– Magna Cum Laude.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: Research Grant
Center for International Business Education and Research
- Faculty Honors: Five New Awards in Summer 2019, UC Berkeley
- Yaniv Konchitchki Makes “World’s Top 40 Under 40”, Poets & Quants, Coverage by Haas media
- How Missing SEC Filing Deadlines Affects a Company’s Stock Value, Columbia Law School, Blue Sky Blog on Corporations and Capital Markets
- Prof. Yaniv Konchitchki Wins American Accounting Association Best Paper Award, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
- Exploring Cross-Sectional Effects of Inflation, Enterprising Investor
- AICPA Honors Three with Education Awards, Accounting Today
- The 40 Most Outstanding B-School Profs Under 40 In The World, Poets & Quants
- Making a Case for Transparent Corporate Accounting Information, Phys.org
- AICPA-Sponsored Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award, American Accounting Association
- Shares Drop When Cos. File Late: Study, CFO
- Best Paper Award – Announcement, American Accounting Association
- Trading PEAD: 16 Stocks With Earnings Surprises Over 50%, Seeking Alpha
- Profs. Receive Prestigious Research Award, American Accounting Association, Coverage by Haas
- Haas Names New Schwabacher Fellows, UC Berkeley Haas
- Financial Accounting, Full-Time MBA Program (Core Course)
- Berkeley Fintech: Frameworks, Applications, and Strategies, Faculty Director, Berkeley Executive Education
- Financial Reporting, Evening MBA Program (Core Course)
- Highlights from Financial Accounting Practice and Research, Berkeley Executive Programs in Management
- Doctoral Seminar in Accounting Research, PhD-Level
- Financial Reporting and Decision Making for Real Life Success, UGBA 127 and MBA 296
- Research Seminar in Financial Accounting, PhD-Level
- Macro-Accounting/Interdisciplinary Capital Markets Research, PhD-Level