Seminars

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, Fall 2009 seminars are held on Fridays at 1:30 p.m. in 333 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.

2011-2012 | 2009-2010 | 2008-2009 | 2007-2008 | 2006-2007 | 2005-2006 | 2003-2004 |
2002-2003 | 2001-2002

2009-2010

Date Speaker and Title
10/09/2009 John Robinson (University of Texas at Austin) Mandated compensation disclosures and CEO pay with Yanfeng Xue and Yong Yu
10/16/2009 Joseph P. Weber (MIT) Auditors and 'Bubbles': The Case of Internet IPOs with Andrew J. Leone, Sarah Rice and Michael Willenborg
10/23/2009
2:00 p.m.
Ron Shalev (Washington University in St. Louis) Target Firm-Specific Information and Expected Synergies in M&A with Xiumin Martin
11/13-14/2009
307 Uris
Burton Workshop

David Aboody (UCLA) Top Executives Insider Trading Profits and Firm Performance with John Hughes, Ruihao Ke, and Nick Ross

Joseph D. Piotroski (Stanford) Political Incentives to Suppress Negative Financial Information: Evidence from State-controlled Chinese Firms with T.J. Wong and Tianyu Zhang

Stefan Reichelstein (Stanford) Dynamics of Rate of Return Regulation (with an Application to the Costs of Reducing CO2 Emissions) with Alexander Nezlobin and Madhav V. Rajan

The Economics of Carbon Capture and CO2 Emission Charges with Ozge Islegen

Richard Sloan (Berkeley) Accrual Reversals, Earnings and Stock Returns with Eric Allen and Chad Larson

Partha Mohanram (Columbia) The Role of Analysts' Cash Flow Forecasts in the Decline of the Accrual Anomaly

Andy Schmidt (Columbia) Firm and investor responses to uncertain tax benefit disclosure requirements with Leslie A. Robinson

Julian Yeo (Columbia) Another Look at Equity and Enterprise Valuation Based on Multiples with Mingcherng Deng and Peter Easton
1/29/2010
331 Uris
Terry Shevlin (U. of Washington) Real Effects of Accounting Rules: Evidence from Multinational Firms' Investment Location and Profit Repatriation Decisions with John R. Graham and Michelle Hanlon
2/05/2010
301 Uris
Columbia/NYU Conference
2/12/2010
333 Uris
Nir Yehuda (Cornell)
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Seminars

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 2012 seminars are held on Fridays at 1:30 p.m. in 307 Uris. In most years, early 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.

2010-2011 | 2009-2010 | 2008-2009 | 2007-2008 | 2006-2007 | 2005-2006 | 2003-2004 |
2002-2003 | 2001-2002

2011-2012

Date Speaker and Title
   
9/23/2011
140 Uris
11:00 A.M
Ole-Kristian Hope (Rotman) "Tax Avoidance and Geographic Earnings Disclosure" (with Mark (Shuai ) Ma and Wayne B. Thomas)
10/14/2011 Volker Laux (McCombs) "Stock Option Vesting Conditions, CEO Turnover, and Myopic Investment"
10/21/2011
326 Uris
11 A.M.
Richard Saouma (UCLA) "On the Optimality of Participatory Budgeting" (with Nicholas Ross)
11/01/2011
141 Uris
12:30 P.M.
Robert Bloomfield (Cornell)
11/04-05/2011
starts 9:30 AM
October Burton Workshop

Philip G. Berger (Chicago), “The Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on Cross-listed Companies” (with Feng Li and M.H. Franco Wong)

Frank Gigler (Carlson), “Necessary Qualities of Accounting Information to Serve a Confirmatory Role” (with Xu Jiang)

Michelle Hanlon (MIT), “Taking the Long Way Home: Offshore Investments in U.S. Equity and Debt Market and U.S. Tax Evasion” (with Edward L. Maydew and Jacob R. Thornock)

Gordon D. Richardson (Rotman), "The Risk-Relevance of Securitized Mortgages During the Recent Financial Crisis" (with Yiwei Dou, Yanju Liu and Dushyantkumar Vyas)

Phillip C. Stocken (Tuck), “Managerial Reporting, Overoptimism, and Litigation Risk” (with Volker Laux)

Dan Amiram (Columbia), “Private benefits extraction and the opposing effects of income smoothing on private debt contracts” (with Edward Owens)

Fabrizio Ferri (Columbia), “Does the Director Election System Matter? Evidence from Majority Voting” (with Yonca Ertimur)

Sharon Katz (Columbia) "The Effects of Increasing Lending to Constrained Firms During a Crisis: Evidence from an Accounting Based Shock to Debt Capacity" (with Moshe Cohen and Gil Sadka)

Urooj Khan (Columbia), "Bias and Efficiency: A Comparison of Analyst Forecasts and Management Forecasts" (with Oded Rozenbaum and Gil Sadka)
11/07/2011
326 Uris
Yonca Ertimur (Duke) "Large Shareholders and Disclosure Strategies: Evidence from IPO Lockup Expirations" with Ewa Sletten and Jayanthi Sunder
11/11/11 Maria Ogneva (Stanford) "Forecasting the Macroeconomy: Analysts versus Economists" (with Rebecca N. Hann and Horacio Sapriza)
12/02/2011
307 Uris
Ilan Guttman (Stanford), "Not Only What But also When - A Theory of Dynamic Voluntary Disclosure" with Ilan Kremer and Andrzej Skrzypacz
12/09/2011
140 Uris
Robert J. Resutek (Tuck), "How does earnings quality affect the equity market? An alternative measure and a new perspective" with Chad Larson
3/22/2012
12:30
142 Uris
Eli Amir (LBS) The Association between Individual Audit Partners’ Risk Preferences and the Composition of their Client Portfolios with Juha-Pekka Kallunki and Henrik Nilsson
3/23/2012
K.R. Subramanyam (USC Marshall) Affiliated Banker on Board and Conservative Accounting with David H. Erkens and Jieying Zhang
3/27/2012
12:30
Anne Beatty (Ohio State University) What do multinationals' disclosures of the number of U.S. versus foreign employees tell us? with Scott Liao
3/30/2012
12:30
303 Uris
Irem Tuna (LBS) Macro to Micro: Country exposures, firm fundamentals and stock returns with Ningzhong Li and Scott Richardson
5/25/2012
1:30
329 Uris
Anne Beyer (Stanford) Conservatism and Aggregation: The Effect on Cost of Equity Capital and the Efficiency of Debt Contracts
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