Awards and Recognition

Chookaszian Accounting Research Center faculty have been recognized for their contributions to study and society by some of the most respected institutions in their fields.

Ray Ball, Sidney Davidson Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting

  • Awarded the 2019 Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation by the University of Pennsylvania’s Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center.  Recognized for his article "An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers," published in the Journal of Accounting Research in 1968, his research revolutionized the understanding of the impact of corporate disclosure on share prices, and of earnings releases in particular; it laid the foundation for much of the modern accounting literature.
  • 2014 AAA FARS Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding thought leadership in financial accounting research over the course of his career.
  • 1986 Seminal Contributions to Accounting Literature Award for "An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers" with Philip Brown.

 

Philip G. Berger, Wallman Family Professor of Accounting and editor, Journal of Accounting Research.

 

John Gallemore, Associate Professor of Accounting and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar

 

Christian Leuz, Joseph Sondheimer Professor of International Economics, Finance and Accounting

 

Michael Minnis, Assistant professor of accounting

  • His paper was a finalist for the 2014 Financial Accounting Reporting Section Midyear Meeting Best Paper Award.

 

Maximilian Muhn, Assistant Professor of Accounting

 

Douglas J. Skinner, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting and executive director of ARC

 

Rimmy Tomy, Associate Professor of Accounting

  • The Bureau Van Dijk Best Paper Award in Banking
  • Best Paper in Corporate Finance, SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2018

 

The above faculty have received awards and recognition from organizations around the world.



Ernest R. Wish Faculty Awards and PhD Fellowships

Ernest R. Wish, ’71 (XP-29), is a donor to the accounting group at Chicago Booth and founder and fundraiser for the Ernest R. Wish Fund that bears his name. Monetary awards are given for best paper to nontenured accounting faculty every other year. The fund also provides periodic awards to PhD students in accounting.

2022: Anastasia Zakolyukina, “How Common Are Intentional GAAP Violations? Estimates from a Dynamic Model”

2019: Joao Granja, “Disclosure Regulation in the Commercial Banking Industry: Lessons from the National Banking Era” 

2017: Hans Christensen and Mark Maffett, "The Real Effects of Mandated Information on Social Responsibility in Financial Reports: Evidence from Mine-Safety Records"

2015: Michael Minnis, "The Value of Financial Statement Verification in Debt Financing: Evidence from Private U.S. Firms"

2013: Sarah L.C. Zechman, “Executive Overconfidence and the Slippery Slope to Financial Misreporting”

2013: Hans B. Christensen and Valeri V. Nikolaev, “Capital Versus Performance Covenants in Debt Contracts”

2011: Regina Wittenberg Moerman, “The Impact of Financial Reporting Quality on Debt Contracting: Evidence from Internal Control Weakness Reports”

2009: Jonathan L. Rogers, “Disclosure Quality and Management Trading Incentives”

2007: Suraj Srinivasan, “Consequences of Financial Reporting Failure for Outside Directors: Evidence from Accounting Restatements and Audit Committee Members”

2005: Haresh Sapra, “Do Mandatory Hedge Disclosures Discourage or Encourage Excessive Speculation?”

2003: Daniel Bens and M.H. Franco Wong, “Employee Stock Options, EPS Dilution, and Stock Repurchases”

2002: Darren T. Roulstone, “The Relation between Insider-Trading Restrictions and Executive Compensation”

2001: Joseph D. Piotroski, “Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to Separate Winners from Losers” (PDF)