Seminars: 2008-2009
The Accounting Division seminar series consists of weekly presentations by
eminent academics, prospective faculty members and the division’s own
faculty members. Unless otherwise noted, Spring 2009 seminars are held on Fridays
at 2:15 p.m. in 332 Uris. In most years, spring semester seminars are recruiting
sessions featuring candidates for faculty positions.
In addition, the division invites distinguished scholars to our annual Burton Workshop.
The current seminar schedule is listed below. If you have any questions, please e-mail the division's Assistant Director.
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2008-2009
| Date |
Speaker
and Title |
| 10/10/2008 |
Theodore
Sougiannis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Balance
sheet growth and the predictability of stock returns with Louis K.
C. Chan, Jason Karceski, and Josel Lakonishok |
| 11/14/2008 |
Burton
Workshop
Eli Amir (London
Business School) The
Effect of Pension Accounting on Corporate Pension Asset Allocation
with Yanling Guan and Dennis Oswald
Robert
Bushman (Kenan-Flagler) Bank
Transparency, Loan Loss Provisioning Behavior, and Risk-Shifting
with Christopher D. Williams
Patricia
Dechow (Univ. of California - Berkeley) Fair
Value Accounting and Gains from Asset Securitizations: A Convenient
Earnings Management Tool with Compensation Side-Benefits with Linda
A. Myers and Catherine Shakespeare
Gregory
V. Miller (Univ. of Michigan) Accounting
Choice Heterogeneity and Analysts' Forecasts with Mark T. Bradshaw
and George Serafeim
Haresh
Sapra (Univ. of Chicago) Corporate
Governance and Innovation: Theory and Evidence with Ajay Subramanian
and Krishnamurthy Subramanian
Daniel Cohen (NYU) Warranty
Reserve: Contingent Liability, Informational Signal, or Earnings Management
Tool? with Masako Darrough, Rong Huang, and Tzachi Zach
Bjorn Jorgensen (Columbia) Are
Accounting Standards Diversifiable? Evidence of the Aggregate Valuation
Effects of Standards with Jing Li and Gil Sadka
Yuan Zhang (Columbia) Corporate Diversification and Overinvestment:
Evidence from Asset Write-Offs with Gil Sadka
|
| 11/21/2008 |
Benjamin
Segal (INSEAD) Management's
Tone Change, Post Earnings Announcement Drift and Accruals with Ronen
Feldman, Suresh Govindaraj, and Joshua Livnat |
| 12/05/2008 |
Florin
Vasvari (London Business School) The
Informational Role of Bond Analysts with Gus De Franco and Regina
Wittenberg-Moerman |
| 12/12/2008 |
Edward
J. Riedl (HBS) Consequences
of Voluntary and Mandatory Fair Value Accounting: Evidence Surrounding
IFRS Adoption in the EU Real Estate Industry with Karl A. Muller,
III, and Thorsten Sellhorn |
1/16/2009
|
Ryan
Ball (University of Chicago) Does
Anticipated Information Impose a Cost on Risk-Averse Investors? |
| 1/23/2009 |
Dawn
Matsumoto (Univ. of Washington) Do
CFOs Have Styles of Their Own? An Empirical Investigation of the Effect
of Individual CFOs on Financial Reporting Practices with Weili Ge
and Jenny Li Zhang |
| 2/06/2009 |
Rebecca
Hann (Univ. of Maryland) Corporate
Diversification and the Cost of Capital with Maria Ogneva and Oguzhan
Ozbas |
| 2/13/2009 |
Dan
Segal (Univ. of Toronto) An
Analytical and Empirical Measure of the Degree of Conditional Conservatism
with Jeffrey L. Callen |
