Accounting Mini Conference

August 15-16, 2025
Tepper School of Business
Pittsburgh, PA

Day 1 Conference Sessions (August 15, 2025)

• Macroeconomic Implications of Accounting Standards
  Author: Volker Laux
  Discussant: Bo Sun, University of Virginia
   
• Uncovering Information: Can AI Tell Us Where to Look? 
  Author: Bradford Levy, University of Chicago
   Discussant: Vitaly Meursault, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

•  Taxation and Returns to Innovation
  Author: Max Risch
  Discussant: Charles McClure, University of Chicago

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  Day 2 Conference Sessions (August 16, 2025)

• Explaining the Compensation of Superstar CEOs: The Case of Elon Musk
  Author: Ivan Marinovic, Stanford University
  Discussion by Robert Miller, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Keynote Speech “Anomaly Detection in Financial and Business Data”
  Author: Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Accounting Graph Entropy
  Author: Pierre Liang, Carnegie Mellon University
  Discussion by Jungho, Stanford University

2025 Conference Participants

• Akoglu, Leman – Carnegie Mellon University
• Bertomeu, Jeremy – WU at St. Louis
• Caskey, Judson – Purdue University
• Cen, Xiao – University of Minnesota
• Cheynel, Edwige – WU at St. Louis
• Choi, Jung Ho – Stanford University
• Dai, Zhonglan – University of Texas at Dallas
• Faloutsos, Christos – Carnegie Mellon University
• Huber, Stefan – University of Pennsylvania
• Huang, Zeqiong – Yale University
• Hwang, Hyun – University of Texas at Austin
• Kim, Yubin – Carnegie Mellon University
• Laux, Volker – University of Texas at Austin
• Levy, Bradford – University of Chicago
• Li, Chen – NYU – Shanghai
• Li, Nan – University of Minnesota
• Liang, Jinghong – Carnegie Mellon University
• Liang, Yucheng – Carnegie Mellon University
• Lunawat, Radhika – UC. Irvine
• Marinovic, Ivan – Stanford University
• McClure, Charles – University of Chicago
• Meursault, Vitaly – FRB, Philadelphia
• Miller, Robert – Carnegie Mellon University
• Nan, Lin – Purdue University
• Petrov, Evgeny – University of Zurich
• Qiu, Lin – Purdue University
• Riggs-Cragun, Amoray – University of Chicago
• Risch, Max – Carnegie Mellon University
• Seppi, Duane – Carnegie Mellon University
• Song, Yihan – Carnegie Mellon University
• Spatt, Chester – Carnegie Mellon University
• Sun, Bo – University of Virginia
• Tian, Joyce – University of Waterloo
• Van der Stede, Wim – London School of Econ.
• Wang, Aluna – HEC Paris
• Won, Yongjoo – Carnegie Mellon University
• Wu, Sang – Columbia University
• Xue, Hao – Duke University
• Yang, Ziyi – Carnegie Mellon University
• Ye, Minlei – University of Toronto
• Ye, Yuanchun – Carnegie Mellon University
• Ytsma, Erina – Carnegie Mellon University
• Yu, Enshuai – Boston College
• Zhang, Shengxing – Carnegie Mellon University
   

August 16-17, 2024
Tepper School of Business
Pittsburgh, PA

Day 1 Conference Sessions (August 16, 2024)

• Carbon Bookkeeping 
  Author: Stefan Reichelstein, Stanford University
  Discussant: Nick Muller, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Panel Discussion: Accounting Structure and Information
  Jonathan Glover (Moderator), Columbia University
  Rick Antle, Yale University
  Stephen Penman, Columbia University
  Shyam Sunder, Yale University
  Greg Waymire, Emory University
   

• Revisiting Accounting Entropy
  Author: Nan Li, University of Minnesota
  Discussant: Jeremy Bertomeu, Washington University

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  Day 2 Conference Sessions (August 17, 2024)

• Inattentive Economies
  Author: Karthik Sastry, Princeton University
  Discussion by Phil Stocken, Dartmouth College
   
• Asymmetric Information, Disagreement, and the Valuation of Debt and Equity
  Author: Kevin Smith (Stanford)
  Discussion by Duane Seppi, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• The Inference-Forecast Gap in Belief Updating
  Author: Yucheng Liang, Carnegie Mellon University
  Discussion by Hong Qu, Kennesaw State University

August 20-21, 2019
Tepper School of Business
Pittsburgh, PA

Day 1 Conference Sessions (August 20, 2019)

• Economic Uncertainty and Investor Attention 
  Author: Henry Friedman, University of California at Los Anageles
   
• No Reliance on Guidance: Counter-Signaling in Management Forecasts 
  Author: Cyrus Aghamolla, University of Minesota
   
• Relative Performance Evaluation, Sabotage and Collusion: Quasi-experimental Evidence on the “RPE Puzzle” 
  Author: Matthew J. Bloomfield, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Effort and Selection Effects of Performance Pay in Knowledge Creation
  Author: Erina Ytsma, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Panel Discussion
  Qi Chen, Duke University
  Pingyang Gao, University of Chicago
  Eva Labro, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Daniel Taylor, University of Pennsylvania

Day 2 Conference Sessions (August 21, 2019)

• How Uncertain is the Market about Managers' Reporting Objectives? Evidence from Structural Estimation
  Author: Edwige Cheynel, University of California, San Diego
   
• Trading Volume and Public Information in an Experimental Asset Market with Short-Horizon Traders
  Author: Radhika Lunawat, University of California, Irvine

2019 Conference Participants

• Cyrus Aghamolla, University of Minnesota
   
• Rick Antle, Yale University
   
• Sanjay Banerjee, University of Alberta
   
• Sudipta Basu, Temple University
   
• Philip Berger, University of Chicago
   
• Jeremy Bertomeu, University of California, San Diego
   
• Andrew Bird, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Matthew Bloomfield, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Pietro Bonaldi, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Jonathan Bonham, University of Chicago
   
• Thomas Bourveau, Columbia University
   
• Pablo Casas-Arce, Arizona State University
   
• Judson Caskey, University of California, Los Angeles
   
• Qi Chen, Duke University
   
• Edwige Cheynel, University of California, San Diego
   
• Carlos Corona, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Kai Du, Penn State University
   
• Ron Dye, Northwestern University
   
• Qintao Fan, University of Oregon
   
• Ivy Feng, University of Maryland
   
• Eric Floyd, University of California, San Diego
   
• Henry Friedman, UCLA
   
• Pingyang Gao, Univeristy of Chicago
   
• Ilan GuttmanNew York University
   
• Alyssa Hagerty, Penn State University
   
• John Heater, Duke University
   
• Steven Huddart, Penn State University
   
• Hyun Hwang, University of Texas at Austin
   
• Xu Jiang, Duke University
   
• Chandra Kanodia, University of Minnesota
   
• Stephen Karolyi, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Jinhwan Kim, Stanford University
   
• Chonghoi Kim, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Michael Kirschenheiter, University of Illinois at Chicago
   
• Anya Kleymenova, University of Chicago
   
• Eva Labro, University of North Carolina
   
• Chen Li, City University of New York
   
• Nan Li, University of Minnesota
   
• Shelley Xin Li, University of Southern California
   
• Pierre Liang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Yufei Lin, Duke Unviersity
   
• Lisa Yao Liu, University of Chicago
   
• Miao Liu, University of Chicago
   
• Henock Louis, Penn State University
   
• Radhika Lunawat, Univeristy of California, Irvine
   
• Paul Ma, University of Minnesota
   
• Asis Martinez-Jerez, University of Notre Dame
   
• Charlie McClure, University of Chicago
   
• Xiaojing Meng, New York University
   
• Beatrice Michaeli, University of California, Los Angeles
   
• Mario Milone, University of California, San Diego
   
• John O'Brien, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Erik Olson, Yale University
   
• Heidi Packard, University Michigan
   
• Jedson Pinto, University of North Carolina
   
• Lin Qiu, University of Hong Kong
   
• K. Ramesh, Rice University
   
• Thomas Ruchti, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• James Ryans, London Business School
   
• Ulrich Schaefer, University of Zurich
   
• Stefan Schantl, University of Melbourn
   
• Mani Sethuraman, Cornell University
   
• Timothy Shields, Chapman University
   
• Shiva Sivaramakrishnan, Rice University
   
• Jack Stecher, University of Alberta
   
• Musa Subasi, University Maryland
   
• Austin Sudbury, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Daniel Taylor, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Phong Truong, Penn State University
   
• Ayung Tseng, Indiana University
   
• Zhaoru (Aluna) Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Eddi Watts, Stanford University
   
• Sang (Kelly) Wu, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Wenjie Xu, National University of Singapore
   
• Hao Xue, Duke University
   
• Lavender Yangyin, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Erina Ytsma, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Ronghuo Zheng, University of Texas at Austin

August 17-18, 2018
Tepper School of Business
Pittsburgh, PA

Day 1 Conference Sessions (August 17, 2018)

• Foundation Talk 1 -  Quantum Entropy and Accounting and Is Accounting an Information Science?
  Author: John Fellingham, OSU
   
• Foundation Talk 2 – Yuji Ijiri's Fairness Question Revisited
  Author: Tae Wan Kim, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Foundation Talk 3 - Inter-Entity Bookkeeping Networks: Representations and Applications
  Author: Jing Li, University of Hong Kong
   
• Foundation Talk 4 – What Shall We Say is Better Accounting?
  Author: Shyam Sunder, Yale University
   
• Emerging Scholar Poster Session

Day 2 Conference Sessions (August 18, 2018)

• Frontier Talk 1 - Textual Classification of SEC Comment Letters 
  Author: James Ryans, LBS
   
• Frontier Talk 2 - Ghost in the Machine: Using Machine Learning to Uncover Hidden Misstatements 
  Author: Eric Floyd, UCSD
   
• Panel Discussion: Accounting in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  Param vir Singh, Carnegie Bosch Associate Professor of Business Technologies, Tepper School of Business
  Eduard Hovy, Language Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
  Feng Li, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance

2018 Conference Participants

• Cagla Akin, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Mark Bagnoli, Purdue University
   
• John Barrios, University of Chicago
   
• Sudipta Basu, Temple University
   
• Philip Berger, University of Chicago
   
• Jeremy Bertomeu, University of California, San Diego
   
• Andrew Bird, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Matthew Bloomfield, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Pietro Bonaldi, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Pablo Casas-Arce, Arizona State University
   
• Edwige Cheynel, University of California, San Diego
   
• Rafael Copat, Rice University
   
• Carlos Corona, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Kai Du, Penn State University
   
• Ronald Dye, Northwestern University
   
• Qintao Fan, University of Oregon
   
• John Fellingham, Ohio State University
   
• Eric Floyd, University of California, San Diego
   
• Pingyang Gao, University of Chicago
   
• Nohora Garcia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
   
• Jonathan Glover, Columbia University
   
• Moritz Hiemann, Columbia University
   
• Eduard Hovy, CMU School of Computer Science
   
• Danqi Hu, Northwestern University
   
• Zeqiong Huang, Yale University
   
• Hyun Hwang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Xu Jiang, Duke University
   
• Zach Kaplan, Washington University at St. Louis
   
• Stephen Karolyi, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• John Kepler, University of Pennsylvania
   
• EunHee Kim, City University of Hong Kong
   
• Tae Wan Kim, Carnegie Mellon
   
• Sehwa Kim, University of Chicago
   
• Chen Li, City University of New York
   
• Jing Li, University of Hong Kong
   
• Feng Li, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance
   
• Ken Li, Stanford University
   
• Yi Liang, Temple University
   
• Pierre Liang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Haijin Lin, University of Houston
   
• Guoyu  Lin, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Tong Lu, University of Houston
   
• Hai Lu, University of Toronto
   
• Radhika Lunawat, University of California, Irvine
   
• Xiaojing Meng    New York University
   
• Lin Nan, Purdue University
   
• Aneesh Raghunandan, London School of Economics
   
• K. Ramesh, Rice University
   
• Thomas Ruchti, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• James Ryans, London School of Business
   
• Ulrich Schaefer, University of Zurich
   
• Mani Sethuraman, Cornell University
   
• Timothy Shields, Chapman University
   
• Siko Sikochi, Harvard University
   
• Shiva Sivaramakrishnan, Rice University
   
• Jack Stecher, University of Alberta
   
• Phillip Stocken, Dartmouth University
   
• Musa Subasi, University of Maryland
   
• Austin Sudbury, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Shyam Sunder, Yale University
   
• Phong Truong, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Ayung Tseng, Indiana University
   
• Param vir Singh, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Zhaoru (Aluna) Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Susan Watts, Purdue University
   
• Xiaoyan (Winnie) Wen, Texas Christian University
   
• Sang (Kelly) Wu, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Youfei Xiao, Duke University
   
• Hao Xue, Duke University
   
• Wenjie (Jason) Xue, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Minlei Ye, University of Toronto
   
• Gaoqing Zhang, University of Minnesota
   
• Lanyi Zhang, University of Houston
   
• Ronghuo Zheng, University of Texas at Austin
   
• Frank Zhou, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Yuan Zou, Columbia University

• Rustam Zufarov, Rice University

   

August 18-19, 2017
Tepper School of Business
Pittsburgh, PA

Day 1 Conference Sessions (August 18, 2017)

• Accounting Conservatism and Incentives: Intertemporal Considerations
  Author: Jon Glover, Columbia University
   
• Emerging Scholars Presentations - Session I
   
• Emerging Scholars Presentations - Session II
   
• Organizational Capital, Managerial Heterogeneity, and Firm Dynamics
  Author: Andrea Pratt, Columbia University

Day 2 Conference Sessions (August 19, 2017)

• Discretionary Disclosure on Twitter
  Author: Hai Lu, University of Toronto
   
• Information Disclosure, Real Investment, and Shareholder Welfare
  Author: Sunil Dutta, University of California at Berkeley
   
• Weak Creditor Rights and Insider Opportunism: Evidence from an Emerging Market
  Author: Radha Gopalan, Washington University at St. Louis
   
• Motives and Consequences of Libor Misreporting: How Much Can We Learn from Banks' Self-Reported Borrowing Rates?
  Author: Pietro Bonaldi, Carnegie Mellon University

2017 Conference Participants

• Cagla Akin, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Mark Bagnoli, Purdue University
   
• Ramji Balakrishnan, University of Iowa
   
• Sanjay Banerjee, University of Alberta
   
• Sudipta Basu, Temple University
   
• Jeremy Bertomeu, University of California, San Diego
   
• Andrew Bird, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Matthew Bloomfield, University of Chicago
   
• Pietro Bonaldi, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Jonathan Bonham, University of Chicago
   
• Matthias Breuer, University of Chicago
   
• Pablo Casas-Arce, Arizona State University
   
• Lee Changwook, New York University
   
• Bin Chen, Sun Yat-sen University
   
• Edwige Cheynel, University of California, San Diego
   
• Carlos Corona, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Richard Crowley, Singapore Management University
   
• Ming Deng, City University of New York
   
• Kai Du, Penn State University
   
• Pierre Liang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Guoyu Lin, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Tong Lu, University of Houston
   
• Hai Lu, University of Toronto
   
• Radhika Lunawat, University of California, Irvine
   
• Paul (Xiao) Ma, University of Minnesota
   
• Charles McClure, Stanford University
   
• Beatrice Michaeli, University of California, Los Angeles
   
• Lin Nan, Purdue University
   
• Allison Nicoletti, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Jim Omartian, University of North Carolina
   
• Andrea Prat, Columbia University
   
• Hong Qu, Penn State University
   
• Daniel Rappoport, Columbia University
   
• Thomas Ruchti, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Ulrich Schaefer, University of Zurich
   
• Mani Sethuraman, Cornell University
   
• Shiva Sivaramakrishnan, Rice University
   
• Ethan Smith, Rice University
   
• Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Jack Stecher, University of Alberta
   
• Phillip Stocken, Dartmouth University
   
• Bobby Stoumbos, Columbia University
   
• Austin Sudbury, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Bo Sun, Federal Reserve Board
   
• Samuel Tan, University of California at Berkeley
   
• Phong Truong, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Zhaoru (Aluna) Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Susan Watts, Purdue University
   
• Xiaoyan (Winnie) Wen, Texas Christian University
   
• Sang (Kelly) Wu, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Youfei Xiao, Duke University
   
• Wenjie (Jason) Xue, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Hao Xue, New York University
   
• Minlei Ye, University of Toronto
   
• Gaoqing Zhang, University of Minnesota
   
• Ronghuo Zheng, University of Texas at Austin
   
• Christina Zhu, Stanford University
   
• Sunil Dutta, University of California, Berkeley
   
• Qintao Fan, University of Oregon
   
• Vivian Fang, University of Minnesota
   
• Joseph Gerakos, Dartmouth College
   
• Jacquelyn Gillette, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   
• Stephen Glaeser, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Jon Glover, Columbia University
   
• Radha Gopalan, Washington University at St. Louis
   
• Moritz Hiemann, Columbia University
   
• Nam Ho, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Danqi Hu, Northwestern University
   
• Zeqiong Huang, Yale University
   
• Hyun Hwang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Stephen Karolyi, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Michael Kirschenheiter, University of Illinois at Chicago
   
• Anya Kleymenova, University of Chicago
   
• Eva Labro, University of North Carolina
   
• Kyungha (Kari) Lee, Rutgers University
   
• Alina Lerman, Yale University
   
• Stefan Lewellen, London Business School

August 19-20, 2016
Tepper School of Business
Pittsburgh, PA

Day 1 Conference Sessions (August 19, 2016)

• Persuasion under Second-Order Uncertainty
  Author: Phillip C. Stocken
   
• Emerging Scholars Presentations - Session I
   
• Emerging Scholars Presentations - Session II
   
• Strategic Listening
  Author: Paul Fischer

Day 2 Conference Sessions (August 20, 2016)

• Regulation of Compensation 
  Author: Anya Kleymenova
   
• Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Effect of Passive Investors on Activism 
  Author: Todd Gormley
   
• Word-of-Mouth Communications and Firm Value
  Author: Hao Xue

Emerging Scholars

• Matthew Bloomfield, University of Chicago
   
• Jonathan Bonham, Rice University
   
• Jung Ho Choi, University of Chicago
   
• Delphine Samuels, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Robert Stoumbos, Yale University
   
• Wuyang Zhao, University of Toronto

2016 Conference Participants

• Cyrus Aghamolla, University of Minnesota
   
• Cagla Akin, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Jim Albertus, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Mark Bagnoli, Purdue University
   
• Tim Baldenius, New York University
   
• Sanjay Banerjee, University of Alberta
   
• Jeremy Bertomeu, City University of New York
   
• Mary Billings, New York University
   
• Andrew Bird, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Alexander Bleck, University of British Columbia
   
• Matthew Bloomfield, University Chicago
   
• Jonathan Bonham, Rice University
   
• Pablo Casas-Arce, Arizona State University
   
• Judson Caskey, University of California, Los Angeles
   
• Craig Chapman, Northwestern University
   
• Edwige Cheynel, Columbia University
   
• Jung Ho Choi, University Chicago
   
• Carlos Corona, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Ming Deng, City University of New York
   
• Yiwei Dou, New York University
   
• Kai Du, Penn State University
   
• Ron Dye , Northwestern University
   
• Alex Edwards, University of Toronto
   
• Aytekin Ertan, London Business School
   
• Qintao Fan, University of Oregon
   
• Paul Fischer, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Henry Friedman, University of California, Los Angeles
   
• Todd Gormley , Washington University
   
• Ilan Guttman, New York University
   
• Mirko Heinle, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Thomas Hemmer, Rice University
   
• Moritz Hiemann, Columbia University
   
• Nam Ho, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Danqi Hu, Northwestern University
   
• Hyun Hwang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Stephen Karolyi, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Eunhee Kim, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Michael Kirschenheiter, University of Illinois at Chicago
   
• Anya Kleymenova, University of Chicago
   
• Kari Lee, Rutgers University
   
• Chen Li, City University of New York
   
• Wei Li, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   
• Pierre Liang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Yi Liang, Temple University
   
• Guoyu Lin, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Radhika Lunawat, University of California, Irvine
   
• Ivan Marinovic, Stanford University
   
• Xiaojing Meng, New York University
   
• Beatrice Michaeli, University of California, Los Angeles
   
• Jeremy Michels, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Lin Nan, Purdue University
   
• Joseph Pacelli, Indiana University
   
• Hong Qu, Penn State University
   
• Ram Ramanan, Binghamton University
   
• Thomas Ruchti, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Delphine Samuels, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Bharat Sarath, Rutgers University
   
• Ulrich Schäfer, University of Zurich
   
• Timothy Shields, Chapman University
   
• Sri Sridharan, Northwestern University
   
• Jack Stecher, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Phillip Stocken, Dartmouth University
   
• Robert Stoumbos, Yale University
   
• Austin Sudbury, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Shyam Sunder, Yale University
   
• Joyce Tian, University of Waterloo
   
• Phong Truong, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Aluna Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Susan Watts, Purdue University
   
• Winnie Wen, Texas Christian University
   
• Kelly Wu, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Jason Xue, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Hao Xue, New York University
   
• Minlei Ye, University of Toronto
   
• Yun Zhang, George Washington University
   
• Wuyang Zhao, University of Toronto
   
• Ronghuo Zheng, University of Texas, McComb

August 21-22, 2015
Tepper School of Business
Pittsburgh, PA

Day 1 Conference Sessions (August 21, 2015)

• Firm Fundamentals and Variance Risk Premiums 
  Author: Matt Lyle, Northwestern University
   
• Consequences of Consumer Sales Taxes in Light of Strategic Suppliers
  Author: Anil Arya, Ohio State University
   
• Selling Experiments
  Author: Dirk Bergemann, Yale University

Day 2 Conference Sessions (August 22, 2015)

• Accrual Reversals and Cash Conversion
  Author: Joseph Gerakos, University of Chicago
   
• Optimal Disclosure Decisions When There are Penalties for Nondisclosure
  Author: Ron Dye, Northwestern University
   
• Lending Relationships and The Demand For Accounting Conservatism: Theory And Evidence
  Author: Jing Li, Tepper School of Business

2015 Conference Participants

• Salman Arif, Indiana University
   
• Anil Arya, Ohio State University
   
• Romana Autrey, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   
• Mark Bagnoli, Purdue University
   
• Ramji Balakrishnan, University of Iowa
   
• Tim Baldenius, New York University
   
• Somdutta Basu, Penn State University
   
• Dirk Bergemann, Yale University
   
• Jeremy Bertomeu, City University of New York
   
• Andrew Bird, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Alexander Bleck, University of British Columbia
   
• Sabine Boeckem, University of Basel
   
• Francesco Bova, University of Toronto
   
• Pablo Casas-Arce, Arizona State University
   
• Judson Caskey, University of California, Los Angeles
   
• Craig Chapman, Northwestern University
   
• Hui Chen, University of Colorado
   
• Zeyun (Jeff) Chen, University of Colorado
   
• Edwige Cheynel, Columbia University
   
• Davide Cianciaruso, Northwestern University
   
• Carlos Corona, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• George Drymiotes, University of Cyprus
   
• Kai Du, Penn State University
   
• Ron Dye, Northwestern University
   
• Qintao Fan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   
• Paul Fischer, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Henry Friedman, University of California, Los Angeles
   
• John Gallemore, University of Chicago
   
• Pingyang Gao, University of Chicago
   
• Joseph Gerakos, University of Chicago
   
• Jonathan Glover, Columbia University
   
• Mirko Heinle, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Moritz Hiemann, Columbia University
   
• Nam Ho, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Hyun Hwang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Xin Jiang, Penn State University
   
• Steve Karolyi, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• EunHee Kim, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Tae Wook (Ryan) Kim, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Chen Li, City University of New York
   
• Wei Li, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   
• Jing Li, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Pierre Liang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Yi Liang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Haijin Lin, University of Houston
   
• Guoyu (Michael) Lin, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Matthew Lyle, Northwestern University
   
• Paul Ma, University of Minnesota
   
• Yuanyuan Ma, University of Minnesota
   
• Joshua Madsen, University of Minnesota
   
• Xiaojing Meng, New York University
   
• Rahul Menon, Northwestern University
   
• Beatrice Michaeli, University of California, Los Angeles
   
• Brian Mittendorf, Ohio State University
   
• Lin Nan, Purdue University
   
• Omar Nayeem, U.S. Federal Communications Commission
   
• Hong Qu, Penn State University
   
• Ram Ramanan, Binghamton University
   
• Jonathan Ross, SUNY - Binghamton
   
• Naomi Rothenberg, University of Alberta
   
• Lufei Ruan, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Thomas Ruchti, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Bharat Sarath, Rutgers University
   
• Ulrich Schaefer, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
   
• Ulf Schiller, University of Basel
   
• Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Sri Sridharan, Northwestern University
   
• Jack Stecher, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Austin Sudbury, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Joyce Tian, University of Waterloo
   
• Phong Truong, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Susan Watts, Purdue University
   
• Martin Wu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   
• Hao Xue, New York University
   
• Wenjie (Jason) Xue, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Minlei Ye, University of Toronto
   
• Gaoqing Zhang, University of Minnesota
   
• Ran Zhao, Chapman University
   
• Ronghuo Zheng, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Amir Ziv, Columbia University

August 15-16, 2014
Tepper School of Business
Pittsburgh, PA

Day 1 Conference Sessions (August 15, 2014)

• Better Access to Information Can Decrease Price
  Author: Snehal Banerjee, Northwestern University
   
• Who Monitors the Monitor? Bank Capital Structure and Borrower Monitoring
  Author: Sudarshan Jayaraman, University of Rochester
   
• Does Competition Improve Disclosure?
  Author: Navin Kartik, Columbia University

Day 2 Conference Sessions (August 16, 2014)

• The Social Value of Accounting Standards
  Author: Qi Chen, Duke University
   
• Identifying Accounting Quality
  Author: Valeri Nikolaev, University of Chicago
   
• Costs and Benefits of Fair Value Accounting: Evidence from the Crisis
  Author: Tom Ruchti, Carnegie Mellon University

2014 Conference Participants

• Mark Bagnoli
   
• Ramji Balakrishnan
   
• Sanjay Banerjee
   
• Snehal Banerjee
   
• Andrew Bird
   
• Alexander Bleck
   
• Judson Caskey
   
• Qi Chen
   
• Carlos Corona
   
• George Drymiotes
   
• Kai Du
   
• Ron Dye
   
• Qintao Fan
   
• Georgios Farfaras
   
• Henry Friedman
   
• Pingyang Gao
   
• Jon Glover
   
• Moritz Hiemann
   
• Nam Ho
   
• Hyun Hwang
   
• Sudarshan Jayaraman
   
• Xu Jiang
   
• Chandra Kanodia
   
• Steve Karolyi
   
• Navin Kartik
   
• Eun Hee Kim
   
• Tae Wook (Ryan) Kim
   
• Michael Kirschenheiter
   
• Eva Labro
   
• Chen Li
   
• Wei Li
   
• Jing Li Pierre Liang
   
• Yi Liang
   
• Guoyu Lin
   
• Haijin Lin
   
• Radhika Lunawat
   
• Paul Ma
   
• Xiaojing Meng
   
• Beatrice Michaeli
   
• Lin Nan
   
• Omar Nayeem
   
• Valeri Nikolaev
   
• Hong Qu
   
• Ram Ramanan
   
• Naomi Rothenberg
   
• Tom Ruchti
   
• Jack Stecher
   
• Philip Stocken
   
• Austin Sudbury
   
• Bo Sun
   
• Joyce Tian
   
• Phong Truong
   
• Susan Watts
   
• Katrin Weiskirchner-Merten
   
• Xiaoyan Wen
   
• Martin Wu
   
• Hao Xue
   
• Wenjie (Jason) Xue
   
• Yun Zhang
   
• Gaoqing Zhang
   
• Ran Zhao
   
• Ronghuo Zheng
   
• Amir Ziv

August 16-17, 2013
Tepper School of Business
Pittsburgh, PA

Day 1 Conference Sessions (August 16, 2013)

• Decentralised Bilateral Trading in a Market with Incomplete Information
  Author: Kalyan Chatterjee, Penn State University
   
• Dynamic Costly Disclosure 
  Author: Ivan Marinovic, Stanford University
   
• Perceived Bank Competition: Operational Decision-Making and Bank Stability
  Author: Robert Bushman, University of North Carolina

Day 2 Conference Sessions (August 17, 2013)

• Robust Predictions in Games with Incomplete Information
  Author: Stephen Morris, Princeton University
   
• Measuring Intentional Manipulation: A Structural Approach
  Author: Anastasia Zakolyukina, University of Chicago
   
• Banks’ Voluntary Adoption of Fair Value Accounting and Interbank Competition
  Author: Carolos Corona, Carnegie Mellon University

2013 Conference Participants

• Regina Anctil, University of St. Thomas
   
• Mark Bagnoli, Purdue University
   
• Tim Baldenius, New York University
   
• Sanjay Banerjee, University of Alberta
   
• Somdutta Basu, Penn State University
   
• Jeremy Bertomeu, City University of New York
   
• Andrew Bird, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Alexander Bleck, University of British Columbia
   
• Sabine Boeckem, University of Basel
   
• Robert Bushman, University of North Carolina
   
• Judson Caskey, University of Texas at Austin
   
• Kalyan Chatterjee, Penn State University
   
• Hui Chen, University of Colorado
   
• Edwige Cheynel, Columbia University
   
• Carlos Corona, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Kai Du, Penn State University
   
• Ron Dye, Northwestern University
   
• Qintao Fan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   
• Paul Fischer, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Pingyang Gao, University of Chicago
   
• Jonathan Glover, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Ilan Guttman, New York University
   
• Mirko Heinle, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Moritz Hiemann, Columbia University
   
• Nam Ho, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Hyun Hwang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Xu Jiang, Duke University
   
• Bjorn Jorgensen, University of Colorado
   
• Chandra Kanodia, University of Minnesota
   
• EunHee Kim, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Tae Wook (Ryan) Kim, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Eva Labro, University of North Carolina
   
• Chen Li, City University of New York
   
• Wei Li, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   
• Jing Li, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Pierre Liang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Yi Liang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Haijin Lin, University of Houston
   
• Radhika  Lunawat, University of California, Irvine
   
• Matthew Lyle, Northwestern University
   
• Ivan  Marinovic, Stanford University
   
• Elena Martynova, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Xiaojing Meng, New York University
   
• Beatrice Michaeli, Columbia University
   
• Brian Mittendorf, Ohio State University
   
• Stephen Morris, Princeton University
   
• Lin Nan, Purdue University
   
• Omar Nayeem, University of California, Berkeley
   
• John O'Brien, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Tiago Pinheiro, NHH
   
• Hong Qu, Penn State University
   
• Ram Ramanan, University of California, Davis
   
• Lufei Ruan, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Thomas Ruchti, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Ulf Schiller, University of Basel
   
• Timothy Shields, Chapman University
   
• Jack Stecher, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Phillip Stocken, Dartmouth University
   
• Austin Sudbury, Ohio State University
   
• Jeroen Suijs, Tilburg University
   
• Shyam Sunder, Yale University
   
• Joyce Tian, University of Waterloo
   
• Susan Watts, Purdue University
   
• Xiaoyan Wen, University of Illinois at Chicago
   
• Martin Wu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   
• Baohua Xin, University of Toronto
   
• Wenjie (Jason) Xue, City University of New York
   
• Hao Xue, New York University
   
• Minlei Ye, University of Toronto
   
• Anastasia Zakolyukina, University of Chicago
   
• Yun Zhang, George Washington University
   
• Gaoqing Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Ran Zhao, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Ronghuo Zheng, Carnegie Mellon University

October 5-6, 2012
Tepper School of Business
Pittsburgh, PA

Day 1 Conference Sessions (October 5, 2012)

• Asset Measurement, Loanable Funds and the Cost of Capital
  Author: Edwige Cheynel, Columbia University
   
• Decentralized Procurement and Inventory Management
  Author: Brian Mittendorf, Ohio State University
   

• Should We Regulate Financial Information?
  Author: Laura Veldkamp, NYU Stern

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Day 2 Conference Sessions (October 6, 2012)

• Asset Informativeness and Market Valuation of Firm Assets
  Author: Qi Chen, Duke University
   
• Strategic Informed Trades, Diversification, and Expected Returns
  Author: Judson Caskey, UCLA
   
• Fair Market Value Could Have Contributed to the Crash
  Author: Jack Stecher, Carnegie Mellon University

2012 Conference Participants

• Mark Bagnoli, Purdue University
   
• Ramji Balakrishnan, University of Iowa
   
• Tim Baldenius, New York University
   
• Sanjay Banerjee, University of Alberta
   
• Sudipta Basu, Temple University
   
• Jeremy Bertomeu, City University of New York
   
• Alexander Bleck, University of Chicago
   
• Francisco Bova, University of Toronto
   
• Judson Caskey, University of Texas
   
• Li Chan, University of Pittsburgh
   
• Qi Chen, Duke University
   
• Hui Chen, University of Colorado
   
• Edwige Cheyne, Columbia University
   
• Carlos Corona, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Masako Darrough, City University of New York
   
• Mingcherng Deng, Baruch College
   
• George Drymiotes, University of Cyprus
   
• Kai Du, Penn State University
   
• Qintao Fan, University of California, Berkeley
   
• Georgrios Farfaras, Temple University
   
• Mei Feng, University of Pittsburgh
   
• Henry Friedman, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Pingyang Gao, University of Chicago
   
• Frank Gigler, University of Minnesota
   
• Jonathan Glover, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Zhaoyang Gu, University of Minnesota
   
• Mirko Heinle, University of Pennsylvania
   
• Thomas Hemmer, Rice University
   
• Steven Huddart, Penn State University
   
• Xu Jiang, Duke University
   
• Bjorn Jorgensen, University of Colorado
   
• Daniel Kaiser, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• EunHee Kim, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Tae Wook Kim, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Michael Kirschenheiter, University of Illinois at Chicago
   
• Andrei Kovrijnkh, University of Chicago
   
• Eva Labro, University of North Carolina
   
• Volker Laux, University of Texas at Austin
   
• Wei Li, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   
• Chen Li, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Pierre Liang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Haijin Lin, University of Houston
   
• Hai Lu, University of Toronto
   
• Radhika Lunawat, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Ivan Marinovic, Northwestern University
   
• Elena Martynova, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Xiajing Meng, New York University
   
• Beatrice Michaeli, Columbia University
   
• Brian Mittendorf, Ohio State University
   
• Nandu Nagarajan, University of Pittsburgh
   
• Lin Nan, Purdue University
   
• Alexander Nezlobin, NYU Stern
   
• John O'Brien, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Ram Ramakrishnan, University of Illinois at Chicago
   
• Ram Ramanan, UC Davis
   
• Naomi Rothenberg, University of Memphis
   
• Lufei Ruan, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Florin Sabac, University of Alberta
   
• Richard Saouma, UCLA
   
• Shiva Sivaramakrishnan, Rice University
   
• Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Jack Stecher, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Shyam Sunder, Yale University
   
• Joyce Tian, University of Alberta
   
• Igor Vaysman, The City University of New York/NYU
   
• Laura Veldkamp, New York University
   
• Tsahi Versano, UCLA
   
• Susan Watts, Purdue University
   
• Xiaoyan Wen, University of Illinois at Chicago
   
• Martin Wu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   
• Baohua Xin, University of Toronto
   
• Hao Xue, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Minlei Ye, University of Toronto
   
• Yun Zhang, George Washington University
   
• Goaqing Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Ran Zhao, Carnegie Mellon University

September 23-24, 2011
Tepper School of Business
Pittsburgh, PA

Day 1 Conference Sessions (October 23, 2011)

• Opacity, Credit Rating Shopping and Bias 
  Author: Chester Spatt
   
• The New Risk Management: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  Author: Philip H. Dybvig
   
• Not Only What But Also When - A Theory of Dynamic Voluntary Disclosure
  Author: Ilan Guttman

Day 2 Conference Sessions (October 24, 2011)

• Delegating Disclosure and Control
  Author: Mark Bagnoli
   
• Stock Option Vesting Conditions, CEO Turnover, and Myopic Investment
  Author: Volker Laux
   
• Why Do Firms Gravitate to Selective Disclosure
  Author: Jing Li

2011 Conference Participants

• Autrey Romana, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   
• Bagnoli Mark, Purdue University
   
• Baldenius Tim, Columbia University
   
• Basu Sudipta, Temple University
   
• Bertomeu Jeremy, Northwestern University
   
• Bleck Alexander, University of Chicago
   
• Bova Francesco, University of Toronto
   
• Caskey Judson, UCLA
   
• Chen Hui, University of Colorado
   
• Chen Zeyun (Jeff), University of Colorado
   
• Cheynel Edwige, Columbia University
   
• Corona Carlos, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Darrough Masako, City University of New York
   
• Deng Mingcherng, University of Minnesota
   
• Dutta Sunil, University of California, Berkeley
   
• Dybvig Phillip, Washington University in St. Louis
   
• Dye Ron, Northwestern University
   
• Fan Qintao, University of California, Berkeley
   
• Feng Mei, University of Pittsburgh
   
• Gao Pingyang, University of Chicago
   
• Glover Jonathan, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Gu Zhaoyang, University of Minnesota
   
• Guttman Ilan, Stanford University
   
• Huddart Steven, Penn State University
   
• Jiang Xu, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Kim Tae Wook (Ryan), Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Labro Eva, University of North Carolina
   
• Laux Volker, University of Texas at Austin
   
• Li Chen, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Li Jing (speaker), Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Liang Pierre, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Lin Haijin, University of Houston
   
• Lu Tong, University of Houston
   
• Meng Xiaojing, Columbia University
   
• Mittendorf Brian, Ohio State University
   
• Nagarajan Nandu, University of Pittsburgh
   
• Nan Lin, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• OBrien John, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Plehn-Dujowich Jose, Temple University
   
• Qu Hong, Penn State University
   
• Ruan Lufei, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Sabac Florin, University of Alberta
   
• Saouma Richard, UCLA
   
• Sivaramakrishnan Shiva, University of Houston
   
• Spatt Chester, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Sridharan Sri, Northwestern University
   
• Stecher Jack, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Stocken Phillip, Dartmouth University
   
• Tian Joyce, University of Alberta
   
• Vaysman Igor, The City University of New York/NYU
   
• Venugopalan Ragu, University of Illinois
   
• Watts Susan, Purdue University
   
• Wen Xiaoyan, University of Illinois at Chicago
   
• Wu Martin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   
• Xin Baohua, University of Toronto
   
• Xue Hao, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Zhang Yun, George Washington University
   
• Zhang Goaqing, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Zhao Ran, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Ziv Amir, Columbia University

September 24-25, 2010
Tepper School of Business
Pittsburgh, PA

Day 1 Conference Sessions (September 24, 2010)

• William Cooper's Accounting Contributions
  Author: Yuji Ijiri
   
• Accounting and Federal Reserve Policy
  Author: Marvin Goodfriend
   
• Financial Risk Topography
  Author: Arvind Krishnamurthy

Day 2 Conference Sessions (September 25, 2010)

• Research for Accounting Policy
  Author: Shyam Sunder
   
• Evidence of the Aggregate Valuation Effects of Standards
  Author: Gil Sadka
   
• The Impact of Earnings Surprises on Stock Returns: Theory and Evidence
  Author: Panos Patatoukas

2010 Conference Participants

• Mark Bagnoli, Purdue
   
• Ramji Balakrishnan, University of Iowa
   
• Sudipta Basu, Temple University
   
• Jeremy Bertomeu, Northwestern University
   
• Anne Beyer, Stanford University
   
• Jake Birnberg, University of Pittsburgh
   
• Alexander Bleck, University of Chicago
   
• Li Chan, University of Pittsburgh
   
• Qi Chen, Duke University
   
• Hui Chen, University of Colorado
   
• Jie Chen, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Edwige Cheynel, Columbia University
   
• Carlos Corona, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Masako Darrough, City University of New York
   
• Mingcherng Deng, University of Minnesota
   
• Ron Dye, Northwestern University
   
• Harry Evans, University of Pittsburgh
   
• Mei Feng, University of Pittsburgh
   
• Hans Frimor, Aahus University
   
• Pingyang Gao, University of Chicago
   
• Jonathan Glover, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Marvin Goodfriend, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Zhaoyang Gu, University of Minnesota
   
• Steven Huddart, Penn State University
   
• Yuji Ijiri, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Bjorn Jorgensen, University of Colorado
   
• Urooj Khan, Columbia University
   
• Michael Kirschenheiter, University of Illinois at Chicago
   
• Arvind Krishnamurthy, Northwestern University
   
• Eva Labro, University of North Carolina
   
• Volker Laux, UT Austin
   
• Wei Li, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   
• Chen Li, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Jing Li, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Pierre Liang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Jieming Liu, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Tong Lu, University of Houston
   
• Paul Madsen, Emory University
   
• Lin Nan, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• John OBrien, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Panos Patatoukas, University of California, Berkeley
   
• Jose Plehn-Dujowich, Temple University
   
• Hong Qu, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Lufei Ruan, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Florin Sabac, University of Alberta
   
• Gil Sadka, Columbia University
   
• Richard Saouma, UCLA
   
• Shiva Sivaramakrishnan, University of Houston
   
• Sri Sridharan, Northwestern University
   
• Jack Stecher, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Bo Sun, University of Virginia
   
• Shyam Sunder, Yale University
   
• Joyce Tian, University of Alberta
   
• Dushyantkumar Vyas, University of Minnesota
   
• Susan Watts, Purdue
   
• Xiaoyan Wen, University of Illinois at Chicago
   
• Martin Wu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   
• Hao Xue, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Yun Zhang, George Washington University
   
• Goaqing Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
   
• Ran Zhao, Carnegie Mellon University