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  Accounting Area
PhD Student Recent Accomplishments

Accounting Area Doctoral Program
    Venky Nagar, Director

  Sixth Year Students
  Emmanuel De George
  AWARDS
  PricewaterhouseCoopers Norm Auerbach Doctoral Student Fellowship
  AAA Deloitte J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow
  RESEARCH
  "The Earnings Announcement Premium around the Globe" with Brad Barber, Brett Trueman and Roby Lehavy, forthcoming in Journal of Financial Economics
  “How much does IFRS cost? Audit fees and IFRS Implementation”with Colin Ferguson and Nasser Spear, forthcoming in The Accounting Review.
  “The Consequences of Accounting Harmonization: IFRS Cross- Border Liquidity Contagion" (job market paper).
  “Peer Effects and Analyst Forecast Properties: Evidence from local office data."
  Fifth Year Students
  Jeffrey Hoopes
  AWARDS
  PricewaterhouseCoopers Norm Auerbach Doctoral Student Fellowship
  Deloitte Doctoral Fellowship Award
 

RESEARCH
  “Do IRS Audits Deter Corporate Tax Avoidance?” with D. Mescall and J. Pittman. 2012, The Accounting Review.
  “Not Just 35%: An Analysis of Analysts’ Forecasts of Effective Tax Rates."
  "What Do Firms Do When Dividend Tax Rates Change? An Examination of Alternative Payout Responses to Dividend Tax Rate Changes” with Michelle Hanlon.
  “The Effect of Tax Authority Monitoring and Enforcement on Financial Reporting Quality” with Michelle Hanlon and Nemit Shroff.
  “The Effect of Public Disclosure on Reported Taxable Income: Evidence from Individuals and Corporations in Japan” with Makoto Hasegawa, Ryo Ishida, and Joel Slemrod.
  “Financial Accounting Consequences of Temporary Tax Law: Evidence from the R&D Tax Credit” (Job market paper).


  Tianshu Qu
  AWARDS
  Neary Award for Academic Excellence
  PricewaterhouseCoopers Norm Auerbach Doctoral Student Fellowship
  RESEARCH
  “Do Outside Directors Gather Information like the Rest of Us? The Relationship between Public
Information Transparency and Outside Director Trading Behavior” (job market paper).
  “Operating Leases and Cost of Equity Capital” with Gene Imhoff, Weili Ge, Lian Fen Lee.
  “Bank Income Smoothing and Opacity” with Cathy Shakespeare and Chris Williams.
  Fourth Year Students
  Jason V. Chen
  AWARDS
  AAA Deloitte J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow
  RESEARCH
  "Estimating the Amount of Estimation in Accruals" with Feng Li.
  "Managers' Self-Serving Attribution Bias, Overconfidence, and Corporate Financial Policies" with Feng Li and Jordan Schoenfeld.
  Brad Hendricks
  AWARDS
  Deloitte Doctoral Fellowship Award
  RESEARCH
  "Do Investors Look Forward or Back? An Examination of the Usefulness of Accounting Information
During the IPO Process."
  "Bank Competition, Decision-Making, and Stability" with Robert M. Bushman and Christopher D.
Williams.
  Third Year Students
  Randall Hucks
  AWARDS
  2012-2013 Thomas William Leabo Award
  RESEARCH
  “The Effects of Disclosure Regime Change on Open Market Repurchase Program Announcements.”
  “The Determinants of Discontinued Operations: Distress Sales and Non-Distress Sales.”
  Jed Neilson
  RESEARCH
  “Bright Line Regulation and Capital Management: A Mechanism for Capital Management in U.S.
Credit Unions.”
  "Market Reaction to Periodic SEC Reports: Could it be Information?”
  Second Year Students
  Jordan Schoenfeld
  RESEARCH
  “The Informativeness of Qualitative Analyst Outputs: Evidence from Earnings Conference Calls.”
  "Managers' Self-Serving Attribution Bias, Overconfidence, and Corporate Financial Policies" with Feng Li and Jason V. Chen.
  MEDIA
  “Analysts Show Basic Instinct”, The Wall Street Journal, August 28, 2012
  Christina Synn
  RESEARCH
  “Earnings Management and Chapter 11 Bankruptcy”
  First Year Students
  Ryan McDonough
  Arrived from PricewaterhouseCoopers
  Nayana Reiter
  Arrived from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
 
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