Recent PhD Graduates

2024

• Roope Keloharju: (Aalto University School of Business) – “Hidden Ownership: Money Laundering Enforcement and Its Impact on Tax Haven Firms’ Ownership Disclosures” 
• Maria Khrakovsky: (Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University) – “Disrupting Consistency in Accounting” 
• Fabian Nagel: (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) – “Consumer Bankruptcy Audits” 
• Hristiana Vidinova: (McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin) – “Forward-Looking Loan Loss Provisioning Under Imperfect Forecasts” 

2023

• June Huang (Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas, Dallas) – “The politics of CSR activity: Evidence from press releases”
• Kalash Jain (Columbia Business School, Columbia University) – “Processing Industry Classification”
  
• Sinja Leonelli (Stern School of Business, New York University) – “Minority Whistleblowers: Evidence from the LGBTQ+ Community”
  

2022

• Gurpal Sran (NYU Stern School of Business) - “Disclosing Labor Demand”
• Lauren Vollon (Università Bocconi) – “Venture Capital and Private M&A Contracting”
  

2021

• Shirley Lu (Harvard Business School, Harvard University) – “The Green Bonding Hypothesis: How do Green Bonds Enhance the Credibility of Environmental Commitments?”
• Yao Lu (SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University) – “Disclosure Externalities from Strategic Interactions: Evidence from Bank Liquidity Disclosure”

2020

• Lisa Liu:  (Columbia Business School at Columbia University) – "Do Auditors Help Prevent Data Breaches?"
• Miao Liu: (Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College) - “Assessing Human Information Processing in Lending Decisions: A Machine Learning Approach”
• Johanna Shin: (The Analysis Group) -  “Institutional Investors as Information Suppliers: Evidence from Investment Conferences”

2019

• Raphael Duguay (Yale School of Management at Yale University) – “The Economic Consequences of Financial Statement Audit Regulation in the Charitable Sector”
• Sehwa Kim (Columbia Business School at Columbia University) – “Do Delays in Banks’ Loan Loss Provisioning Affect Economic Downturns? Evidence from the U.S. Housing Market”
• Jinzhi Lu (College of Business at City University of Hong Kong) – “Limited Attention: Implications for Financial Reporting”
• Anya Nakhmurina (Yale School of Management at Yale University) – “Does fiscal monitoring make better governments? Evidence from US municipalities”
• Ling Yang (Smith School of Business at Queen’s University) -  “Why Was Loan Loss Provisioning Delayed During the 2008 Financial Crisis? An Information Quality-Based Explanation”

2018

• Matthias Breuer (Columbia Business School at Columbia University) – “How Does Financial Reporting Regulation Affect Market-Wide Resource Allocation?”
• Rachel Marie Geoffroy (Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University) – “Electronic Proxy Statements Dissemination and Shareholder Monitoring”
• Oleg Kiriukhin (Cornerstone Research – NYC) – “Accruals Quality and Firm Value”

2017

• Matthew Bloomfield (The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania) - "Strategic Delegation and the Weaponization of Executive Pay: Evidence from Revenue-Based Performance Evaluation"
• Jung Ho Choi (Stanford University Graduate School of Business) - "Accrual Accounting and Resource Allocation: A General Equilibrium Analysis"
• Heemin Lee (Baruch College, CUNY, Zicklin School Of Business) - "Does the Threat of Whistleblowing Reduce Accounting Fraud?"
• Brett Lombardi (Monash University) - "Financial Reporting and the Market Risk Premium"
• Sorabh Tomar (Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business ) - "Firm Responses to Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting"

2016

• Frank Zhou (The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania) - “Disclosure Dynamics and Investor Learning”
• Brandon Gipper (Stanford University Graduate School of Business) - “Assessing the Effects of Disclosing Management Compensation”

2015

• Gerardo Perez Cavazos (Harvard Business School) - "Sharing private information with customers: Strategic default and lender learning"
• Andrew Sutherland (MIT Sloan School of Management) - "The Economic Consequences of Borrower Information Sharing: Relationship Dynamics and Investment"

2014

• Eric Floyd (Rice University) - "Transparency Regulation, Bargaining, and the Price of Healthcare"
• Anne Heinrichs (Columbia University) - "Investors' Access to Corporate Management: A Field Experiment about 1-on-1 calls"
• Zachary Kaplan (Washington University, St. Louis) - "Does Bundling Matter?"
• Nan Li (University of Toronto) - "Labor Market Peer Firms"

2013

• Christine Cuny (New York University Stern School of Business) - "Determinants of Municipal Disclosure and the Consequences of Dissemination" 
• Joao Granja (MIT Sloan School of Management) - "Disclosure Regulation in the Commercial Banking Industry: Lessons from the National Banking Era" 
• Catherine F. Lee (Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management) - "Corporate Lobbying and Financial Statements: Evidence from the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004"
• Josh Madsen (University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management) - "Information Disclosures and Predictable Returns: The Resolution of Customer Momentum"

2012

•  Meng Li (University of Texas at Dallas) - "Moral Hazard and Internal Discipline: Theory and Evidence"

2011

• Anna Costello (MIT Sloan School of Management) - "Mitigating Incentive Conflicts in Inter-Firm Relationships: Evidence from Long-Term Supply Contracts"
• Robert Davidson, MBA '11 (Georgetown University) - "Accounting Fraud: Booms, Busts, and Incentives to Perform"
• Alon Kalay (Columbia University) - "Investor Sophistication, Disclosure and the Information Environment of the Firm"
• Jonathan Milian, MBA '11 (Florida International University) - "An Empirical Examination of Disclosure Horizon: Evidence from the Term Structure of Implied Equity Volatilities"

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