The Accounting Research Conference is an annual, invitation-only event that brings together about 80 accounting academics on the University of Illinois Chicago campus.
About the UIC Business Accounting Research Conference
Over two days, six distinguished researchers present their work, and participants discuss the papers in a workshop format. Attendees also connect with colleagues from across the U.S. and abroad while enjoying social outings such as a Cubs or White Sox game or a visit to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Past Conferences
2025–2023
2025
- Jeremy Bertomeu, Washington University, “On the Value Losses of Disruption in Technology Adoption”
- Anna Costello, University of Chicago, “Doctor’s Orders: A Field Experiment on Fiscal Responsibility in Healthcare”
- John Kepler, Stanford University, “Quality Transparency and Healthcare Competition”
- Ryan Wilson, University of Illinois Chicago, “Does Country-by-Country Reporting Make Multinational Firms Smarter?”
- Gwen Yu, University of Michigan, “Enhancing Corporate Communication with AI-summarized Disclosures”
- Rustam Zufarov, University of Illinois Chicago, “Big G and Innovation in Newly Public Firms”
2024
- Beth Blankespoor, University of Washington, “Generative AI in Financial Report Writing”
- Rebecca Hann, University of Maryland, “Show Me the Money! The Role of Salary Disclosure in the AI Labor Market”
- Valeri Nikolaev, University of Chicago, “Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models”
- Paige Patrick, University of Illinois Chicago, “Allocation of Board Leadership Rights: Evidence From Lead Independent Directors’ Responsibilities”
- Tatiana Sandino, Harvard University, “The Effect of a System for Sharing Best Practices”
- Steve Stubben, University of Utah, “Private Equity’s Diversification Illusion: Evidence from Fair Value Accounting”
2023
- Nerissa Brown, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Do Local Country Reporting Requirements Affect Parent Company Geographic Disclosures?”
- Shane Heitzman, University of Southern California, “Lender of Last Resort? Funding Needs and Tax Savings”
- Michal Matejka, Arizona State University, “Relative Performance Evaluation and Long-Term Incentives”
- Dawn Matsumoto, University of Washington, “Do Investor Preferences Affect Analyst Research? Evidence from Chinese Dual-Listed Shares”
- Nemit Shroff, MIT, “Does U.S. Immigration Policy Facilitate Financial Misconduct?”
- Irene Zhong, University of Illinois Chicago, “Under the “Spotlight”: Media Attention and Greenwashing”
2022–2019
2022
- Ana Albuquerque, Boston University, “Are ISS Recommendations Informative? Evidence from Assessments of Compensation Practices”
- Jason Chen, University of Illinois Chicago, “The Compounding of Accounting Estimates and Auditors Risk Premiums: Evidence from Unexplained Audit Fees ”
- Lakshmanan Shivakumar, London Business School, “Are CEOs Rewarded for Luck? Evidence from Corporate Tax Windfalls ”
- Bridget Stomberg, Indiana University, “How Tax Authorities’ Interest in Information Outside of Tax Returns Affects Corporate Communication: Insights from Tax Executives ”
- Clare Wang, University of Colorado, “ The Irrelevance of ESG Disclosure to Retail Investors: Evidence from Robinhood ”
- Charles Wasley, University of Rochester, “Fifty+ Years of Empirical Capital Markets Research in Accounting in “N” Pictures ”
2021
- Brian Bushee, University of Pennsylvania, “Co-opetition and the Firm’s Information Environment”
- Gary Chen, University of Illinois Chicago, “Income Taxes and Managerial Incentives: Evidence from Hedge Funds”
- Scott Dyreng, Duke University, “Tax Deficits and the Income Shifting of U.S. Multinationals”
- Eddie Riedl, Boston University, “Changes in Risk Factor Disclosures and the Variance Risk Premium”
- Jayanthi Sunder, University of Arizona, “Insider Trading Restrictions and Informed Trading in Peer Stocks”
2020
The 2020 Accounting Conference was not held due to COVID-19.
2019
- Shane Dikolli, University of Virginia – Darden, “CFO Co-option and CEO Compensation”
- Yonca Ertimur, University of Colorado, “Tainted Executives as Outside Directors”
- Cristi Gleason, University of Iowa, “The Measurement of Quarterly Earnings: Integral Versus Discrete Method”
- Thomas Hemmer, Rice University, “Aggregation and Convexity in the Provision of Dynamic Incentives”
- Steven Savoy, University of Illinois Chicago, “Expected Economic Growth and Investment in Corporate Tax Planning”
- Regina Wittenberg, University of Southern California, “Lifting the Banking Veil: Credit Standards’ Harmonization through Lending Transparency”
2018–2016
2018
- Jennifer Blouin, University of Pennsylvania, “Does Tax Planning Affect Organizational Complexity:Evidence from Check-the-Box”
- DJ Nanda, University of Miami, “The Relative Salience of Accounting Information in the Governance of Family Firms.”
- Vivek Raval, University of Illinois Chicago, “Implied Volatility Comovement and Insider Information Content”
- Katherine Schipper, Duke University, “The Last Chance to Improve Financial Reporting Reliability: Evidence from Recorded and Waived Audit Adjustments”
- Karen Sedatole, Emory University, “The Folly of Forecasting: The Effects of a Disaggregated Demand Forecasting System on Forecast Error, Forecast Positive Bias, Inventory Levels.”
- Beverly Walther, Northwestern University, “Do Brokerage Houses Exchange Stock Tips for Political Favors?”
2017
- Ellen Engel, University of Illinois Chicago, “Money for Nothing? Using Expectations of Loss Persistence to Examine CEO Cash Compensation in Loss-Making Firms”
- Paul Hribar, University of Iowa, “Implied Confidence in Management Range Forecasts”
- Andrew Leone, University of Miami, “When Does the SEC Exercise Enforcement Leniency?”
- Edward Maydew, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, “U.S. Firms on Foreign (tax) Holidays”
- Maureen McNichols, Stanford University, “Increased Information Content of Earnings Announcements in the 21st Century: An Empirical Investigation?”
- Mohan Venkatachalam, Duke University, “The Changing landscape of accrual accounting: Implications for operating cash flow predictability. ”
2016–2015
2016
- Shiva Rajgopal, Columbia University, “Corporate Culture: Evidence From the Field”
- Mary Brooke Billings, New York University, “Do Managers Respond to Litigation with Silence?”
- Michael Minnis, University of Chicago, “Commercial Lending Concentration and Bank Expertise: Evidence from Borrower Financial Statements”
- Alex Nekrasov, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Opportunity Knocks but Once: Delayed Disclosure of Financial Items in Earnings Announcements and Analyst and Investor Neglect of Earnings News”
- Sugata Roychowdhury, Boston College, “Clarity begins at Home: Internal Information Asymmetry and External Communication Qualit”
- Sarah McVay, University of Washington, “Aggregate R&D Expenditures and Firm-Level Profitability of R&D”
- Bjorn Jorgensen, London School of Economics and Political Science, “Market-Wide Effects of Off-Balance Sheet Disclosures: Evidence from the Oil and Gas Industry”
2015
- Anne Beatty, Ohio State University, “Does Loan Loss Provision Timeliness Affect the Accuracy, Informativeness, and Predictability of Analyst Provision Forecasts?”
- Pervin Shroff, University of Minnesota, “Active CDS Trading and Managers’ Voluntary Disclosure”
- Karthik Ramanna, Harvard University, “Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy”
- Melissa Martin, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Executive Compensation: A Firm Life Cycle Analysis”
- Peter Easton, University of Notre Dame, “A New Approach to Empirical Analysis of the Relation Between Change in Value and Earnings”
- Maria Ogneva, University of Southern California, “Predicting Restatements in Macroeconomic Indicators Using Accounting Information”
- Thomas Omer, University of Nebraska, “The Effects of Regulatory Scrutiny on Tax Avoidance: An Examination of SEC Comment Letters”
2013–2014
2014
- Theodore Sougiannis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Do Analysts Understand the Economic and Reporting Complexities of Derivatives?”
- Feng Li, University of Michigan, “Estimating the Amount of Estimation in accruals”
- Laura Wellman, University of Illinois at Chicago, “From K Street to Wall Street: Politically Connected Analysts and Stock Recommendations”
- Elizabeth Blankespoor, Stanford University, “CEO Visibility: Are Media Stars Born or Made?”
- Douglas Skinner, University of Chicago, “The Evolution of Audit Market Structure and the Emergence of the Big 4: Evidence from Australia”
- Partha Mohanram, University of Toronto, “Fundamental Analysis: A Comparison of Financial Statement Analysis Driven and Intrinsic Value Driven Approaches”
- Richard Mergenthaler, University of Iowa, “Principles-Based Standards and Earnings Attributes”
2013
- Stephen Penman, Columbia University, “Book Rate of Return, Risk, and the Information Conveyed by Conservative Accounting”
- Shail Pandit, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Do Compustat Financial Statement Data Articulate?”
- Daniel Collins, University of Iowa, “Financial Statement Comparability and the Efficiency of Acquisition Decisions”
- Lian Fen Lee, Boston College, “The Role of Social Media in the Capital Market Consequences of Consumer Product Recalls”
- Jacob Thomas, Yale University, “Revisiting the Anomalous Distributions of eps Forecast Errors”
- Alastair Lawrence, UC Berkeley, “SEC Comment Letters and Insider Sales”
- Philip Berger, University of Chicago, “The Rational Modeling Hypothesis to Explain Analyst Underreaction to Earnings News”