Accounting

Spring 2024

Faculty Organizers: Yao Lu & Xinyu Zhang
Administrative Support: acsupport@cornell.edu

*All presentations are held on Mondays from 4:15 – 5:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted*

DATE: April 8, 2024
SPEAKER: Sugata Roychowdhury, Northwestern University
PRESENTATION: “Spillover Effects of Fee Transparency: Evidence from the Corporate Bond Markets”
ROOM: 134 Sage Hall

DATE: April 15, 2024
SPEAKER: Salman Arif, University of Minnesota
PRESENTATION: The Real Effects of CEO Depression: Evidence from Corporate Investment Behavior
ROOM: 134 Sage Hall

DATE: April 22, 2024
SPEAKER: Elizabeth Blankespoor, University of Washington
PRESENTATION: Toxic Social Media Opinions and CEO Gender
ROOM: 134 Sage Hall

DATE: May 6, 2024
SPEAKER: Ivo Tafkov, Georgia State University
PRESENTATION: TBA
ROOM: 134 Sage Hall

DATE: May 13, 2024
SPEAKER: Jee-Eun Shin, University of Toronto
PRESENTATION: TBA
ROOM: 134 Sage Hall


Fall 2023

Faculty Organizers: Yao Lu & Xinyu Zhang
Administrative Support: acsupport@cornell.edu

*All presentations are held on Mondays from 4:15 – 5:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted*

DATE: August 28, 2023
SPEAKER: Sanjeev Bhojraj, Cornell University
PRESENTATION: Financial Transparency and Daily Market Perceptions of Firms’ Tail Risks∗
ROOM: B08 Sage Hall

DATE: September 18, 2023
SPEAKER: Margaret Christ, University of Georgia
PRESENTATION:  When will you teach a man to fish?:
How Relative Performance Evaluation and Social Bonds Influence Process and Solution Knowledge Sharing among Peers
ROOM: B08 Sage Hall

DATE: September 25, 2023
SPEAKER: Natasha Bernhardt, Cornell University
PRESENTATION: When and How Investors Use the Systemic Cues in Firms’ Organizational Structure to Attribute Rank-and-File Problems to CEOs
ROOM: B08 Sage Hall

DATE: October 2, 2023
SPEAKER: Yao Lu, Cornell University
PRESENTATION: “The impact of climate hazards on banks’ long-run performance”
ROOM: B08 Sage Hall

DATE: October 9, 2023
SPEAKER: Elisha Yu, Cornell University
PRESENTATION: “Real Earnings Management and Innovation Externalization: Evidence from Corporate Venture Capital”
ROOM: B08 Sage Hall

DATE: October 16, 2023
SPEAKER: Frank Zhang, Yale University
PRESENTATION: “Winning is not enough: Changing landscapes of earnings surprises and the market reaction”
ROOM: 141 Sage Hall

DATE: October 30, 2023
SPEAKER: Michal Matejka, Arizona State University
PRESENTATION: Relative Performance Evaluation and Long-Term Incentives
ROOM: B08 Sage Hall

DATE: November 6, 2023
SPEAKER: Khrystyna Bochkay, University of Miami
PRESENTATION: “Credible disclosure or mere puffery?
Empirical evidence on the voluntary use of sustainability
disclosure standards”
ROOM: B08 Sage Hall

DATE: November 13, 2023
SPEAKER: Natasha Bernhardt, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: Practice Job Market Presentation
ROOM: B08 Sage Hall

DATE: November 20, 2023
SPEAKER:  Elisha Yu, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: Practice Job Market Presentation
ROOM: B08 Sage Hall

DATE: November 27, 2023
SPEAKER: Max Hewitt, University of Arizona
PRESENTATION: “The Confidence-Based Spillover Effects of Forecasting on Managers’ Risk-Taking”
ROOM: B08 Sage Hall