Nahum Melumad

James L. Dohr Professor of Accounting and Business Law

Accounting

BA, Tel Aviv University, 1978; MBA, University of California, Berkeley, 1983; PhD, 1985; CPA

Joined CBS in 1993

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Nahum Melumad

Office
610 Uris

Phone
212-854-2475

E-mail
ndm4@columbia.edu

Fax
212-202-7898

Teaching and research interest

Professor Melumad's research focuses on controllership, performance measurement, incentives, organization design, compensation, corporate fraud, costing and pricing. He has taught the core courses on financial accounting and managerial accounting, as well as an elective on strategic management control. He is the recipient of the 2005 Columbia Business School Annual Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in MBA/EMBA Core Class. He is also a corecipient of the 2004 Chazen Research Prize and the 1996 Chazen International Teaching Innovation Prize. Between 2002 and 2008, he served as the co-director of the Columbia Executive Education/NYSE Program for directors of public companies, "Accounting Essentials for Corporate Directors: Enhancing Financial Integrity."

He has published numerous articles in academic and professional journals, and served on the editorial boards of the Contemporary Accounting Research, the Accounting Review, and the Review of Accounting Studies. From 1984 to 1993, he was a faculty member at Stanford Business School. Professor Melumad has served as a consultant to a number of companies, including Bristol-Myers Squibb, CountryWide, General Electric, GE Capital and Morgan Stanley.

Journal articles

Auditors' Liability, Investments and Capital Markets: An Unintended Consequence of Sarbanes-Oxley In Journal of Accounting Research (2012)
Author(s): Ming Deng, Nahum Melumad, Toshi Shibano

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Line-item Analysis of Earnings Quality In Foundations and Trends in Accounting (2008)
Author(s): Nahum Melumad, Doron Nissim

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Activity-Based Costing and Cost Interdependencies Among Products: The Denim Finishing Company In Issues in Accounting Education (2005)
Author(s): Dennis Caplan, Nahum Melumad, Amir Ziv

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Reduced Quality and an Unlevel Playing Field Make Consumers Happier In Management Science (2004)
Author(s): Nahum Melumad, Amir Ziv

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Integrating Managerial and Tax Objectives in Transfer Pricing In Accounting Review (2004)
Author(s): Tim Baldenius, Nahum Melumad, Stefan Reichelstein

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Can 'Big Bath' and Earnings Smoothing Coexist as Equilibrium Financial Reporting Strategies? In Journal of Accounting Research (2002)
Author(s): Michael Kirschenheiter, Nahum Melumad

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Monitoring in Multiagent Organizations In Contemporary Accounting Research (2002)
Author(s): Tim Baldenius, Nahum Melumad, Amir Ziv

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Comparing Alternative Hedge Accounting Standards: Shareholders' Perspectives In Review of Accounting Studies (1999)
Author(s): Nahum Melumad, Guy Weyns, Amir Ziv

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On Cost Tradeoffs Between Conservative and Market-Value Accounting In Review of Accounting Studies (1997)
Author(s): Joseph Bachar, Nahum Melumad, Guy Weyns

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A Theoretical Examination of the Market Reaction to Auditors' Qualifications In Journal of Accounting Research (1997)
Author(s): Nahum Melumad, Amir Ziv

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Contract Complexity, Incentives and the Value of Delegation In Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (1997)
Author(s): Nahum Melumad, Dilip Mookherjee, Stefan Reichelstein

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An Argument Against Hedging by Matching the Currencies of Costs and Revenues In Journal of Applied Corporate Finance (1996)
Author(s): Trevor Harris, Nahum Melumad

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Divisional Versus Company-Wide Focus: The Trade-Off Between Allocation of Managerial Attention and Screening of Talent In Journal of Accounting Research (1995)
Author(s): Masako Darrough, Nahum Melumad

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Hierarchical Decentralization of Incentive Contracts In RAND Journal of Economics (1995)
Author(s): Nahum Melumad, Dilip Mookherjee, Stefan Reichelstein

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Should Taxpayers Be Subsidized to Hire Third-Party Preparers? A Game-Theoretic Analysis In Contemporary Accounting Research (1994)
Author(s): Nahum Melumad, Mark Wolfson, Amir Ziv

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The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board: Regulation Through Veto-Based Delegation In Journal of Accounting Research (1994)
Author(s): Nahum Melumad

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A Theory of Responsibility Centers In Journal of Accounting and Economics (1992)
Author(s): Nahum Melumad, Dilip Mookherjee, Stefan Reichelstein

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Communication in Settings with No Transfers In RAND Journal of Economics (1991)
Author(s): Nahum Melumad

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An Equilibrium Analysis of Optimal Audit Contracts In Contemporary Accounting Research (1990)
Author(s): Nahum Melumad, Lynda Thoman

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On Auditors and the Courts in an Adverse-Selection Setting In Journal of Accounting Research (1990)
Author(s): Nahum Melumad, Lynda Thoman

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Value of Communication in Agencies In Journal of Economic Theory (1989)
Author(s): Nahum Melumad, Stefan Reichelstein

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Asymmetric Information and the Termination of Contracts in Agencies In Contemporary Accounting Research (1989)
Author(s): Nahum Melumad

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Delegation as Commitment: The Case of Income Tax Audits In RAND Journal of Economics (1989)
Author(s): Nahum Melumad, Dilip Mookherjee

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Centralization Versus Delegation and the Value of Communication In Journal of Accounting Research (1987)
Author(s): Nahum Melumad, Stefan Reichelstein

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Working Papers

Camouflaged Earnings Management Working Paper (2010)
Author(s): Itay Kama, Nahum Melumad

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Operating Profit Variation Analysis: Implications for Future Earnings and Equity Values Working Paper (2010)
Author(s): Marc Badia, Nahum Melumad, Doron Nissim

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Advising and Monitoring CEOs: The Dual Role of Boards Working Paper (2010)
Author(s): Tim Baldenius, Nahum Melumad, Xiaojing Meng

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Optimal Assignment of Decision Rights in Teams Working Paper (2010)
Author(s): Koji Abe, Nahum Melumad, Hideo Suehiro

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Perception of Fairness under Asymmetric Information (work in progress) (2010)
Author(s): Ran Kivetz, Nahum Melumad

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The Impact of Reporting Discretion on Earnings Quality (2010)
Author(s): Michael Kirschenheiter, Nahum Melumad

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Auditors' Liability, Investments and Capital Markets: An Unintended Consequence of Sarbanes-Oxley Working Paper (2009)
Author(s): Ming Deng, Nahum Melumad

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Matching Currency Footprints: An Alternative Perspective Working Paper (2009)
Author(s): Trevor Harris, Nahum Melumad

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Why Do Firms Gravitate to Selective Disclosure? Working Paper (2009)
Author(s): Jing Li, Nahum Melumad

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Forthcoming Articles

Board Composition and CEO Power In Journal of Financial Economics (2013)
Author(s): Tim Baldenius, Nahum Melumad, Xiaojing Meng

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