Accounting Workshop Spring 2011

Jan 13 (Thur)

Kevin Chen, Tang Feng

HKUST

The Association between Executive Compensation and Reporting Choice: Evidence from the Adoption of SFAS No. 130 by Financial Institutions

Jan 17 (Mon)

Fei Du

U. of Southern California

Political Connections and Access to Bond Capital: Reputation or Collusion?

21 Jan (Fri)

Junqi Zou

HKUST

The Accrual Anomaly over the Firm Life Cycle

11 Feb (Fri)

Xi Li

Boston University

Real Earnings Management and Subsequent Stock Returns

15 Feb (Tue)

HF You

HKUST

Uncover Incentives from Analyst Forecasts Empirical Evidence and Valuation Implications

18 Feb (Fri)

Kirill Novoselov

HKUST

The Importance of Asking the Right Question: Conference Calls and Information Aggregation

24 Feb (Thu)

Claudia Zhen Qi

University of Southern California

Systematic Risk and Accounting Conservatism

4 March (Fri)

Derrald Stice

University of North Carolina

The Market Response to Implied Debt Covenant Violations

7 March (Mon)

Kelly Huang

Georgia State University

Earnings Smoothing and Investment Sensitivity to Stock Prices

10 March (Thu)

Jingjing Zhang

Northwestern University

The Impact of Changes in Competition in the Syndicated Loan Market on Financial Covenant Use

15 March (Tue)

Jiang Xu

University of Minnesota

Accounting Conservatism and Debt Contract Efficiency with soft Information

18 March (Fri)

Julia Yu

University of Georgia

The Interaction of Voluntary and Mandatory Disclosures: Evidence from the SEC's elimination of the IFRS-U.S. GAAP Reconciliation

22 March (Tue)

Liang Tan

Northwestern University

Creditor Control, State of Nature Verification, and Financial Reporting Conservatism

25 March (Fri)

Jimmy Lee

Northwestern University

The Role of Accounting Conservatism in Firms' Financial Decisions

31 March (Thu)

Joseph Weintrop

City University of New York

How Increased Competition among Credit Rating Agencies Improves Investor Awareness of Initial Bond Ratings, Accounting Restatements, and Bankruptcy Predictions

4 April (Mon)

Young Jun Cho

Cornell University

Segment Disclosures, Internal Capital Markets, and Firm Value: Evidence from SFAS No. 131

15 April (Fri)

Chen, Zhihong

City U of HK

Personal Liabilities and the Cost of Equity Capital

18 April (Mon)

You, HaiFeng

HKUST

Valuation-Driven Profit Transfer among Corporate Segments

21 April (Thu)

Chen, Shuping

UT Austin

Short-term earnings guidance and earnings quality

29 April (Fri)

Zhang, Yuan

Columbia University

Option Prices Leading Equity Prices: Superior Information Discovery or Superior Information Processing?

13 May (Fri)

Sudipto Basu

Temple University

Neglect of Multiplicity when Texting Families of Related Hypotheses

27 May (Fri)

Li, Yinghua

Purdue University

3 June (Fri)

Ilia Dichev

Emory University

The Dark Side of Trading

10 June (Fri)

Haifeng You

HKUST

Valuation-Driven Profit Transfer among Corporate Segments

15 July (Fri)

Jong-Hag Choi

Seoul National University

DID THE 1998 MERGER OF PRICE WATERHOUSE AND COOPERS & LYBRAND INCREASE AUDIT QUALITY? A FIRM- AND OFFICE-LEVEL ANALYSIS

22 July (Fri)

Vivian Fang

Rutgers University

Inside Debt and the Design of Corporate Debt Contracts