Alexander Nekrasov, PhD
Associate Professor of Accounting (with Tenture)
Department of Accounting
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UH 2327
Address:
601 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
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About
Alexander Nekrasov is a tenured Associate Professor of Accounting at the UIC College of Business Administration, where he has taught since 2016. He holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Minnesota and brings a distinctive interdisciplinary background, including graduate studies in economics and a Master of Science in Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Prior to joining UIC, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine for eight years. Professor Nekrasov is a prolific and highly cited researcher whose work has appeared in top journals including The Accounting Review, Management Science, Journal of Accounting Research, and the Review of Accounting Studies, and has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, CFO Magazine, and Columbia Law School. He has received UIC's Dean's Recognition for Outstanding Teaching and the Accounting Club's Educator of the Year Award, reflecting his commitment to rigorous, engaging instruction at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Selected Publications
- Gutierrez, E., Lourie, B., Nekrasov, A., & Shevlin, T. (2020). Are online job postings informative to investors? Management Science, 66(7), 3133–3141. [Covered by Wall Street Journal]
Lourie, B., Nekrasov, A., Ozel, N. B., & Zhu, C. (2024). Consensus credit ratings: A view from banks. Review of Accounting Studies, 29(3), 2391–2436.
- Nekrasov, A., Lourie, B., Truong, P., & Zhu, C. (2025). Do earnings announcements affect employee spending? Evidence from transaction data. Journal of Accounting Research.
- Li, Q., Lourie, B., Nekrasov, A., & Shevlin, T. (2022). Employee turnover and firm performance: Large-sample archival evidence. Management Science, 68(8), 5667–5683. [Cited in the SEC’s 2020 rule on human capital disclosure]
- Nekrasov, A., Teoh, S. H., & Wu, S. (2022). Visuals and attention to earnings news on Twitter. Review of Accounting Studies, 27(4), 1233–1275.
- Nekrasov, A., Chiu, P., Lourie, B., & Teoh, S. H. (2021). Cater to thy client: Analyst responsiveness to institutional investor attention. Management Science, 67(12), 7455–7471.
Notable Honors
2025, Accounting Faculty Research Award, Ernst & Young
2024, Outstanding Reviewer, Contemporary Accounting Research
2022, Educator of the Year, The Accounting Club, University of Illinois Chicago
2017 & 2018, Best Paper Award, Dean's Recognition for Outstanding Teaching — UIC
2014, Best Paper Award, Core Full-Time MBA — UC Irvine
2014, Best Paper Award, CAPANA Research Conference
Education
PhD Accounting — University of Minnesota
PhD Economics — University of Minnesota
MS Physics — Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Research Currently in Progress
- “The Effect of AI on Retail Investor Behavior: Evidence from Account-Level Trading Data.” with O. Even-Tov, B. Lourie, and K. Munevar
- “Crypto fraud and investing behavior” with B. Lourie, P. Truong, and C. Zhu.
- “Late trade credit payments to meet cash flow forecasts” with D. Cohen, C. Liang, and B. Lourie.