UIC Business Accounting Research Conference

• 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”

• 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 ”

• 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”

The 2020 Accounting Conference was not held due to Covid- 19.

• 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”

• 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?”

• 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. ”

• 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”

• 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”

• 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”

• 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”