Accounting Seminars 2015-2016

Seminars 2015-2016

Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Fridays at 1:30 p.m., rooms indicated below. 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 Associate Director.

Yuan Zhang (UT Dallas) "Directors from Related Industries and Management Forecast Accuracy" with Ruihao Ke and Meng Li

Date	Speaker and Title
9/25/2015 331 Uris
10/02/2015 301 Uris	Nerissa Brown (U. of Delaware) "What are you saying? Using topic to detect financial misreporting" with Richard M. Crowley and W. Brooke Elliott
10/09/2015 140 Uris	Partha Mohanram (U. of Toronto) "Can Twitter Help Predict Firm-Level Earnings and Stock Returns?" with Eli Bartov and Lucile Faurel
Wed, 10/21/2015 3:55 p.m. 326 Uris	Panos Patatoukas (Berkeley) "Asymmetric Timeliness Estimates of Conditional Conservatism: Separating Accounting from Economics" with Sunil Dutta
10/23/2015 307 Uris	Alfred Wagenhofer (U. of Graz) "Effects of Increasing Enforcement on Financial Reporting Quality and Firm Value" with Ralf Ewert
11/06/2015 331 Uris	Shane Heitzman (USC) "Corporate Tax Planning and Stock Returns" with Maria Ogneva
BURTON WORKSHOP 8:00 a.m. 11/13-12:30 p.m. 11/14/2015 301 Uris	Paul Fischer (Wharton) "Strategic Listening" with Mirko S. Heinle and Kevin Smith Paul M. Healy (Harvard) "Voluntary, Self-Regulatory and Mandatory Disclosure of Oil and Gas Company Payments to Foreign Governments" with George Serafeim Ivan Marinovic (Stanford) "The Dynamics of Concealment: CEO Myopia and Information Withholding" with Jeremy Bertomeu, Stephen J. Terry, Felipe Varas Gregory S. Miller (Michigan) "The Effects of Enhanced Disclosure Requirements on Management Guidance Qualit y" with Nayana Reiter M.H. Franco Wong (U. of Toronto) "Buy-Side Analysts and Earnings Conference Calls" with Michael J. Jung and X. Frank Zhang Edwige Cheynel (Columbia) "A back-of-the-envelope structural estimator of proprietary costs" with M. Liu-Watts Fabrizio Ferri (Columbia) "Stock Returns Prior To Contentious Shareholder Votes" with Francois Brochet and Greg Miller Anne Heinrichs (Columbia) "Who Consumes Firm Disclosures? Evidence from Earnings Conference Calls" with Jihon Park and Eugene Soltes Suresh Nallareddy (Columbia) "On the Disparity between Corporate Profits and Economic Growth" with Urooj Khan and Ethan Rouen
11/20/2015 301 Uris	Alexander Nezlobin (Berkeley) "Accounting Rules, Equity Valuation, and Growth Options" with Dmitry Livdan
12/04/2015 332 Uris	William J. Mayew (Duke) "What's in a (school) name? Racial discrimination in higher education bond markets" with Casey Dougal, Pengjie Gao, and Christopher A. Parsons
2/26/2016 307 Uris	Karen K. Nelson (Rice) "Mind the Gap: CEO-Employee Pay Ratios and Shareholder Say on Pay Votes" with Steven S. Crawford, and Brian R. Rountree
3/25/2016 330 Uris	Michal Matejka (Arizona State) "Balancing Incentive Weights and Difficulty of Performance Targets:Theory and Evidence" with Korok Ray
4/01/2016 301 Uris	Rachel M. Hayes (U. of Utah) "Private Information and the Granting of Stock Options" with Mary Ellen Carter and Marlene A. Plumlee
4/08/2016 301 Uris	Hemang Desai (Southern Methodist University) "Bank Capital and Monitoring: Evidence from Loan Quality" with Gauri Bhat
4/14/2016 2:15 PM 301 Uris	Christian Leuz (Chicago)
4/22/2016	Steven Monahan (INSEAD) "Aggregation and Accounting Informativeness" with Daniel A. Bens and Logan B. Steele
5/25/16 140 Uris	Mary E. Barth (Stanford)