2025 Carnegie Mellon Accounting Mini-Conference
Accounting Applications of Information Science and Economics
Tepper School of Business
4765 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 - Google Maps
Conference Schedule
| FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2025 - TEP 2700 | |
| MODERATOR: Gaoqing Zhang | |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Welcome Luncheon - The Tepper Quad, Room 2612 |
| 12:30 - 12:45 p.m. | Opening Remarks |
| 12:45 - 1:45 p.m. | Talk 1 – “Macroeconomic Implications of Accounting Standards” by Volker Laux (UT Austin) Discussion by Bo Sun (UVA) |
| 1:45 - 2:15 p.m. | Break |
| 2:15 - 3:30 p.m. | Talk 2 – “Uncovering Information: Can AI Tell Us Where to Look?” by Bradford Levy (Chicago) Discussion by Vitaly Meursault (Philly Fed) |
| 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. | Break |
| 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Talk 3 – “Taxation and Returns to Innovation” by Max Risch (CMU Tepper) Discussion by Charles McClure (Chicago) |
| 5:30 p.m. | Depart for Dinner |
| 6:30 - 9:00 p.m. | Cocktails and Dinner: Church Brew Works, 3525 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15201 |
| SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 2025 - TEP 2700 | |
| MODERATOR: Yucheng Liang | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Shuttle from the Hotel to Tepper |
| 8:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - The Tepper Quad, Room 2612 |
| 9 - 10 a.m. | Talk 1 – “Explaining the Compensation of Superstar CEOs: The Case of Elon Musk” by Ivan Marinovic (Stanford) Discussion by Robert Miller (CMU Tepper) |
| 10 - 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. | Talk 2 – Keynote Speech “Anomaly Detection in Financial and Business Data” by Christos Faloutsos (CMU CS) |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Break |
| 12 - 1:00 p.m. | Talk 3 – “Accounting Graph Entropy” by Pierre Liang (CMU Tepper) Discussion by Jungho Choi (Stanford) |
| 1:00 p.m. | Lunch - TEP 2612 |
2025 Conference Participants
TBD