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Coordinated by Alex Edwards and Dushyant Vyas

Winter/Spring 2017 Accounting Seminars

Wed. Jan. 11	10:30 to 12:00	Room 151	Robert Stoumbos, Yale University	RECRUITING CANDIDATE How Does Quarterly Reporting Reduce Information Asymmetry?
Wed. Jan. 18	10:30 to 12:00	Room 127	Nayana Reiter, University of Michigan	RECRUITING CANDIDATE Investor Communication and the Benefits of Cross-Listing
Wed. Jan. 25	10:30 to 12:00	Room 157	Sara Toynbee, University of Washington	RECRUITING CANDIDATE Implications of disclosing order backlog
Thurs. Jan. 26	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1065	Rajesh Vijayaraghavan, Harvard Business School	UTM RECRUITING CANDIDATE Recognizing Loan Losses in Banks: An Examination of Alternative Approaches
Mon. Jan. 30	10:30 to 12:00	Room 133	Annika Yu Wang, University of California, Berkeley	UTM RECRUITING CANDIDATE R&D Overinvestment around Seasoned Equity Offerings: Evidence from High-Technology Industries
Wed. Feb. 1	10:30 to 12:00	Room 157	Eunhee Kim, Carnegie Mellon University	ROTMAN/UTM RECRUITING CANDIDATE The Market for Reputation: CEO Turnover and Firm Performance
Mon. Feb. 6	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1065	Xinlei Li, Columbia University	UTM RECRUITING CANDIDATE Relationship Lending in Syndicated Loans: a Participant’s Perspective
Wed. Feb. 8	10:30 to 12:00	Room 127	Heemin Lee, University of Chicago	RECRUITING CANDIDATE Does the Threat of Whistleblowing Reduce Accounting Fraud?
Wed. Feb. 15	10:30 to 12:00	Room 157	Akash Chattopadhyay, Harvard Business School	ROTMAN/UTM RECRUITING CANDIDATE Managing Activists: Earnings Management during Activism Campaigns
Wed. Mar. 8	10:30 to 12:00	Room 157	Michael Jung, New York University	Analyst Spin
Wed. Mar. 29	10:30 to 12:00	Room 157	Siqi Li, Santa Clara University	Tone at the Top: CEOs’ Religious Beliefs and Earnings Management
Wed. Apr. 5	10:30 to 12:00	Room L1010	Asis Martinez Jerez, University of Notre Dame	Leader Effects in Competition Among Teams: Evidence From a Field Intervention
Wed. Apr. 19	10:30 to 12:00	Room L1010	Urooj Khan, Columbia University	Co-Migration and the Benefits of Relationships in Banking Lending
Wed. May 17	10:30 to 12:00	Room 147	Stephanie Cheng, Rotman School of Management	The Informational Role of Corporate Financial Information in the Secondary Municipal Bond Market
Wed. May 24	10:30 to 12:00	Room 147	Mahfuz Chy, Rotman School of Management	Wealth Destruction Effects of Annual Management Forecasts

Fall 2016

Wed. Sept. 14	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	Lynn Hannan (Tulane University)	Team Member Subjective Communication in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Teams
Wed. Sept. 28	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	Wuyang Zhao (Rotman)	Activist Short-Selling
Wed. Oct. 5	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	Michelle Hanlon (MIT)	TaxRates and Corporate Decision Making
Wed. Oct. 12	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	Thomas Hemmer (Rice University)	Optimal Dynamic Relative Performance Evaluation
Wed. Oct. 19	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1065	Barbara Su (Rotman)	The Impact of Banks’ Cross-Selling on Debt Contracting and Firm Financial Reporting
Wed. Oct. 26	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	Zahn Bozanic (Ohio State University)	Securities Law Expertise and Corporate Disclosure
Wed. Nov. 2	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1065	Ross Lu (Rotman)	Economic Consequences of Corporate Governance Disclosure:Evidence from the 2006 SEC Regulation on Related-Party Transactions
Wed. Nov. 16	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	Cathy Shakespeare (University of Michigan)	Responding to Regulatory Uncertainty:Evidence from Basel III
Wed. Nov. 23	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	Alexander Bleck (University of British Columbia)	Risk-insensitive Regulation
Wed. Nov. 30	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	Muhammad Azim(Rotman)	Does Employee Monitoring Reduce Agency Issues?Evidence from the Whistleblower Provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act
	11:15 to 12:00	Room 142	Jingjing Wang(Rotman)	Big Bath Accounting, Management Deception, and Information Asymmetry: Evidence from Linguistic Analysis
Wed. Dec. 7	1:00 to 3:00	Room 147	Stefan Anchev (Umeå University)	Individual Investors and the Volume of Firm Disclosure
Wed. Dec. 14	11:00 to 12:00	Room 142	Feng Chen(Rotman)	Do Audit Clients Engage in Opportunistic or Informational Opinion Shopping?

Winter Spring 2016

Wed. Jan. 6	10:30 to 12:00	Room151	Allison Nicoletti, Ohio State University	RECRUITING CANDIDATE The Effects of Auditors and Regulators on Bank Financial Reporting: Evidence from Loan Loss Provisions
Wed. Jan. 13	10:30 to 12:00	Room133	Shiwon Song, USC Leventhal	RECRUITING CANDIDATE The Informational Value of Disaggregated Segment Data: Evidence from the Textual Features of Business Descriptions
Mon. Jan. 18	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1065	Youfei Xiao, Stanford Graduate School of Business	UTM RECRUITING Uncertainty, Disagreement and Forecast Dispersion: Empirical Estimates from a Model of Analysts’ Strategic
Wed. Jan. 20	10:30 to 12:00	Room157	Jacquelyn Gillette, University of Rochester	RECRUITING CANDIDATE The Information Content of Debt Analyst Reports for Firms in Financial Distress
Wed. Jan. 27	10:30 to 12:00	Room151	Daehyun Kim, University of Texas at Austin	RECRUITING CANDIDATE Board Classification and Shareholder Value: Evidence from Corporate Law Amendments
Thurs. Jan. 28	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1065	Chris Small, University of Iowa	UTM RECRUITING The Effect of Analysts on the Market Response to Earnings Announcements
Wed. Feb. 3	10:30 to 12:00	Room151	James Ryans, University of California at Berkeley	RECRUITING CANDIDATE Textual Classification of SEC Comment Letters
Thurs. Feb. 4	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1065	Yu Ting Forester Wong, Columbia University	UTM RECRUITING Wolves at the Door: Look at Hedge Fund Activism
Wed. Feb. 10	10:30 to 12:00	Room 151	Xin (Shelley) Li, Harvard Business School	RECRUITING CANDIDATE Boss Cut Me Some Slack: Control and Innovation in a Multitasking Environment
Mon. Feb. 22	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1065	Frank Zhou, University of Chicago	UTM RECRUITING Disclosure Dynamics and Investor Learning
Wed.Mar. 16	10:30 to 12:00	Room 151	Alex Edwards, Rotman School of Management	Supercharged IPOs: Rent Extraction or Signal of Future Firm Performance?
Wed. Mar. 23	1:00 to 2:30	Room 1065	Hila Fogel Yaari, Tulane University	MD&A Textual Similarity and Auditors
Wed. Mar. 30	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1065	Roger Silvers, University of Utah	The effects of cross-border information-sharing on enforcement and earnings attributes
Wed. Apr. 6	10:30 to 12:00	Room 151	Paul Zarowin, New York University	Capitalization vs Expensing and the Behavior of R&D Expenditures
Wed. Apr. 13	10:30 to 12:00	Room 151	Wuyang Zhao, Rotman School of Management	Activist Short-Selling
Wed. Apr. 20	10:30 to 12:00	Room 368, 371B	Devin Shanthikumar, University of California, Irvine	CFO Incentives and Product Development Innovation: Insights from Trademarks
Wed. Apr. 27	10:30 to 12:00	Room 368, 371B	George Serafeim, Havard Business School	Investor Activism on Sustainability Issues
Wed. May 18	10:30 to 12:00	Room 127	Ross Lu, Rotman School of Management	Economic Consequences of Control-Procedure Disclosure: Evidence from the 2006 SEC Regulation on Related-Party Transactions
Mon. May 30	10:30 to 12:00	Room 127	Barbara Su, Rotman School of Management	TBA

Fall 2015

Wed. Sept. 16	10:30 to 12:00	Room 151	Nico Lehnmann, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen	Do corporate governance analysts matter?
Wed. Sept. 23	10:45 to 12:00	Room 151	Franco Wong, Rotman School of Management	Buy-side analysts and earnings conference calls
Wed. Sept. 30	10:30 to 12:00	Room 151	Chandra Kanodia, University of Minnesota	What are the Economic Consequences of Fair Value Accounting?
Wed. Oct. 7	10:30 to 12:00	Room 157	Yaniv Konchitchki, UC Berkeley	Accounting and the Macroeconomy: The Housing Market
Wed. Oct. 14	10:30 to 12:00	Room 151	Danqi Hu, Rotman School of Management	Does the Public Availability of Market Participants’ Trading Data Affect Firm Disclosure? Evidence form Short Sellers
Wed. Oct. 21	10:30 to 12:00	Room 151	Ramy Elitzur, Rotman School of Management	Is Moneyball a Myth? Perceived Advantages to Sabermetrics vs Reality
Wed. Oct. 28	1:00 to 2:30	Room 151	Leila Peyravan, Rotman School of Management	Financial Reporting Quality and Dual-Holding of Debt and Equity
Wed, Nov. 4	10:30 to 12:00	Room 151	Brian Bushee, University of Pennsylvania	Linguistic Complexity in Firm Disclosures: Obfuscation or Information?
Wed. Nov. 11	10:30 to 12:00	Room 151	Shane Heitzman, University of Southern California	Corporate Tax Planning and Stock Returns
Wed. Nov. 18	10:30 to 12:00	Room 151	Lars Hamers, Visiting Phd. student - Maastricht	Firm Life Cycle, Heterogeneity in Investor Beliefs, and Stock Price Crash Risk
Wed. Dec. 2	10:30 to 12:00	Room 151	Cathy Shakespeare, University of Michigan	CANCELLED
Wed. Dec. 9	10:30 to 12:00	Room 151	John Gallemore, University of Chicago	The Effect of Corporate Taxation on Bank Transparency: Evidence from the Deductibility of Loan Losses

Winter/Spring 2015

Wed., Jan. 28	10:30 to 12:00	Room 151	Sasan Saiy,Rotman School of Management	The impact of operational control quality on operational efficiency and valuation: Evidence from U.S. bank holding companies
Wed. Feb. 4	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	Partha Mohanram,Rotman School of Management	Fundamental Analysis: Combining Financial Statement Analysis Driven and Intrinsic Value Driven Approaches
Wed. Feb. 11	11:00 to 12:00	Room 157	Jessie Zhu,University of Manchester	Corporate Dividend Payout and Earnings Management: Evidence from Chinese Regulatory Changes
Wed., Mar. 4	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	April Klein,New York University	Costs and Benefits of Acquiring Information: How Hedge Fund Managers Trade on the Freedom of Information Act
Wed., Mar. 18	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	Ranjani Krishnan,Michigan State University	Influence of Observable but Unverifiable Information on Contact Form
Wed., April 1	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1065	Karthik Balakrishnan,London Business School	Equity Market Liberalization, Information Asymmetry and Cost of Capital
Wed., April 8	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1065	Weili Ge,University of Washington	Does Internal Control over Financial Reporting Curb Corporate Corruption? Evidence from China
Wed., April 15	2:00 to 3:30	Room 1065	Patricia Dechow,University of California - Berkeley	Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Identifying the Signal and Predictable Error Components of Target Price Implied Returns
Wed., April 22	2:00 to 3:30	Room 142	Mahfuz Chy,Rotman School of Management	Does Auditor Legal Liability Impede Innovation? Evidence from Natural Experiments
Wed., April 29	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	Suresh Nallareddy,Columbia Business School	On the Disparity between Corporate Profits and Economic Growth
Wed., May 6	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1035	Francesco Bova, Rotman School of Management	State-Owned Enterprises, Competition, and Disclosure
Wed., May 13	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1035	Aida Wahid,Rotman School of Management	Professionalization of Corporate Boards and Its Consequences
Wed., May 20	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1035	Wuyan Zhao,Rotman School of Management	Third-Party Consequences of Short-Selling Threats: The Case of Auditor Behavior
Wed., May 27	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1035	Danqi Hu,Rotman School of Management	Does the Public Availability of Market Participants’ Trading Data affect Firm Disclosure? Evidence from Short Sellers
Wed. June 3	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1035	Leila Peyravan,Rotman School of Management	Firm Opacity and Dual-Holding of Debt and Equity
Fri. June 12	11:00 to 12:00	Room 1035	Gord Richardson,Rotman School of Management	Have SFAS 166 and SFAS 167 Improved the financial reporting for securitizations?
Wed. June 17	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1030	Francesco Bova, Rotman School of Management	National Culture and the Timing of Employee Stock Option Exercise
Wed. June 24	11:00 to 12:00	Room 127	Alex Edwards,Rotman School of Management	Taxes and Peer Effects

Fall 2014

Coordinated by Alex Edwards and Dushyant Vyas

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Presentation/Paper
Wed., Sept. 10	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	John Jiang, Michigan State University	Former rating analysts and the ratings of MBS and ABS: Evidence from LinkedIn
Wed., Sept. 17	11:00 to 12:00	Room 142	Feng Chen, Rotman School of Management	Flight to Quality in International Markets: Political Uncertainty and Investors’ Demand for Financial Reporting Quality
Wed., Sept. 24	11:00 to 12:00	Room 142	Wuyang Zhao, Rotman School of Management	Permanent Shocks to Blockholder Exit Threats and Operating Performance: Evidence from China’s Split-Share Structure Reform
Wed., Oct. 1	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	Thomas Omer, University of Nebraska	Does Audit Office Industry Diversity Affect Audit Quality? Evidence from Tax and Non-Tax Accounts
Wed., Oct. 8	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	Vivian Fang, University of Minnesota	Equity Vesting and Managerial Myopia
Wed., Oct. 15	2:15 to 3:45	Room 142	Itay Kama, University of Michigan	Conditional Persistence of Earnings Components and Accounting Anomalies
Wed., Oct. 22	10:30 to 12:00	Room 1065	Hila Fogel-Yaari, Rotman School of Management	CEO Characteristics, Information Asymmetry, and Innovation
Wed., Nov. 5	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	Lin Cheng, University of Arizona	Unionization, Product Market Competition, and Strategic Disclosure
Wed., Nov. 12	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	Shiva Sivaramakrishnan, Rice University	Voluntary Disclosure and Real Investment Distortions in IPOs
Wed., Nov. 26	11:15 to 12:00	Room 142	Stephanie Cheng, Rotman School of Management	Does Voluntary CSR Reporting Affect the Informativeness of Mandatory Financial Disclosures?
Wed., Dec. 3	10:30 to 12:00	Room 142	Jenny Zhang, University of British Columbia	CEO Incentives and the Health of Defined Benefit Pension Plans
Wed., Dec. 10	12:00 to 1:00	Room 142	Barbara Su, Rotman School of Management	Green Disclosures? Social Media and Prosocial Behaviour

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