Accounting Workshop Fall 2017

Date

Speaker

Paper

September 8

3:30 - 5:00pm

Sugata Roychowdury

Boston College

Does Litigation Encourage or Deter Real Earnings Management ?

September 11

3:30 - 5:00pm

John Barrios

U of Chicago

Boards of a Feather: Foreign Directors around the World

September 15

3:30 - 5:00pm

Maria Correia

LSE

Are Securities Class Actions "Supplemental" to SEC Enforcement ? An Empirical Analysis

September 29

3:30 - 5:00pm

Charles Hsu  

HKUST

The Governance Role of Social Media: Evidence from Small Investors' Criticisms of Managers' Acquisition Attempts

October 13

3:30 - 5:00pm

Brian Cadman

U of Utah

Investor Horizon and Commitment to Disclosure

October 18

3:30 - 5:00pm

Szu-fan Chen
Zhihong Chen

HKUST

The Joint Effect of Capital market Competition and Product Market Competition on Corporate Disclosure

October 25

12 - 1:30 pm

Amy Zang

HKUST

 Analysts' Predictable Bias in Hardening Their Soft Information

November 10

12 nn - 1 pm

Allen Huang

HKUST

 The Long-Term Consequences of Short-Term Incentives

November 15

12 nn - 1pm

Shiheng Wang

HKUST

Credit Rating Agencies and Accounting Frauds

November 17

3:30 - 5:00pm

Brian Miller

Indiana U

 Does Accounting Matter for (Start-up) Business Profitability ?

November 24

3:30 - 5:00pm

Panos Patatoukas

UC Berkeley  

 Customer-Base Concentration: Implications for Audit Pricing and Quality

December 1

12 nn - 1 pm

Amy Zang

HKUST

 ACCOUNTING Brown Bag Seminar

December 6

12 nn - 1 pm

Haifeng You

HKUST

 Vertical competition, systematic risk and expected returns

December 8

3:30 - 5:00pm

Emmanuel Degeorge

UC Berkeley

 Debt Financing and Collateral: The Role of Fair-Value Adjustments

January 18, 2018

3:30 - 5:00pm

Luzi Hail

(Wharton)

 Do Risk Disclosures Matter When it Counts ? Evidence from the Swiss Franc Shock