Carnegie Mellon University

18th Annual Carnegie Mellon Accounting Mini-Conference

The mini-conference was held August 18-19, 2017 at the Tepper School of Business.


Conference Schedule

FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 2017
11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Welcome Luncheon - Grand Room, 3rd floor Posner Hall
12:45 - 1 p.m. Opening Remarks
1 - 1:45 p.m. Accounting Conservatism and Incentives: Intertemporal Considerations [pdf]
Author: Jon Glover, Columbia University
1:45 - 2 p.m. Break
2 - 3 p.m. Emerging Scholars Presentations - Session 1
3 - 3:15 p.m. Break
3:15 - 4:15 p.m. Emerging Scholars Presentations - Session 2
4:15 - 4:45 p.m. Break and voting
4:45 - 5:30 p.m. Organizational Capital, Managerial Heterogeneity, and Firm Dynamics [pdf]
Author: Andrea Pratt, Columbia University
5:45 p.m. Molley's Trolleys from the Tepper School of Business to the Wyndham Hotel
6:30 p.m. Molley's Trolleys from the Wyndham Hotel to Church Brew Works
6:45 - 9 p.m. Cocktails and Dinner: Church Brew Works, 3525 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15201
9:15 p.m. Molley's Trolleys from Church Brew Works to the Wyndham Hotel
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 2017
8:15 a.m.
Shuttle from Wyndham Hotel to Tepper School of Business
8:30 - 9 a.m. Continental Breakfast - Grand Room, 3rd floor Posner Hall
9 - 9:45 a.m. Discretionary Disclosure on Twitter [pdf]
Author: Hai Lu, University of Toronto
9:45 - 10 a.m. Break
10 - 10:45 a.m. Information Disclosure, Real Investment, and Shareholder Welfare [pdf]
Author: Sunil Dutta, University of California at Berkeley
10:45 - 11:30 a.m. Weak Creditor Rights and Insider Opportunism: Evidence from an Emerging Market [pdf]
Author: Radha Gopalan, Washington University at St. Louis
11:30 - 11:45 a.m. Break
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Motives and Consequences of Libor Misreporting: How Much Can We Learn from Banks' Self-Reported Borrowing Rates? [pdf]
Author: Pietro Bonaldi, Carnegie Mellon University
12:30 p.m. Lunch
  • 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