AES Weekly Webinars
The AES hosts a Research Webinar for working papers of joint interest in Economics and Accounting. The webinars are on Fridays 10:00AM PST (1:00PM EST), and you can connect using the following link (with a computer or smartphone). If you would like to subscribe to the webinar announcements or present a paper, please email admin@accountingtheory.org.
Starting April 2021, webinars are distributed on the AES Youtube channel. Please click on the link below to access recordings and Subscribe to remain up to date on all webinars and events.
Link to Webinar
https://wustl.zoom.us/j/93012884289
Schedule 2020
05/28/2021, Bradyn Breon-Drish (UCSD)
05/21/2021, Eva Labro (UNC)
05/7/2021, JAR Conference, no webinar
04/30/2021, Signaling, Instrumentation, and CFO Decision-Making, Gilles Chemla (Imperial-Dauphine)
04/23/2021, Uncertainty, Contracting, and Beliefs in Organizations, Paolo Fulghieri (UNC)
04/16/2021, Contracting on what Firm Owners Value, Jonathan Bonham (Chicago)
04/09/2021, Columbia Burton Conference, no webinar
04/02/2021, Learning to Disclose: Disclosure Dynamics in the 1890s Streetcar Industry, Matthias Breuer (Columbia)
03/26/2021, Job Search with Financial Information: Theory and Evidence, Jungho Choi (Stanford)
03/19/2021, New Perspectives in Audit Theory, Part II: Economics and Audit Research, R. Knechel (Florida), readings 1 and 2
03/12/2021, New Perspectives in Audit Theory, Part I: Three Recent Advances in Auditing, M. Ye (Toronto), H. Friedman (UCLA), H. Hwang (Austin)
03/05/2021, Whoever Has Will Be Given More: Information Sharing in Financial Markets, Liyan Yang (Toronto)
02/26/2021, Nick Dopuch Conference and University of Houston Conference, no webinar
02/19/2021, Was Sarbanes-Oxley Costly? Evidence from Optimal Contracting on CEO Compensation, Chen Li (NYU Shangai)
02/12/2021, Sequential Reporting Bias, Cyrus Aghamolla (Minnesota)
02/05/2021, Monitoring Spillovers Between Competing Passive and Active Asset Managers, Lucas Mahieux (Tilburg)
01/29/2021, Motivating through Managing by Walking Around, Pablo Casas-Arce (Arizona)
01/22/2021, FARS conference, no seminar
01/15/2021, Accounting for Compensation: Dynamic Moral Hazard and Optimal Accruals, Seung Lee (Odense)
12/04/2020, Editor Panel on Writing Theory in Accounting, with I. Guttman (NYU), F. Sabac (Alberta), P. Fischer (Wharton) and T. Hemmer (Rice),
moderated by J. Bertomeu (Wash U)
11/27/2020, Thanksgiving Break
11/20/2020, Zeqiong Huang (Yale), Why Impose Accounting Uniformity Information
11/13/2020, Xiaojing Meng (NYU), Information, Incentives and CEO replacement
11/06/2020, Kevin Smith, Disclosing to Informed Traders
10/23/2020, Martin Szydlowski (Minnesota), Friends Don’t Lie: Monitoring and Communication With Risky Investments
10/16/2020, Jeremy Bertomeu (Wash U), The Editor's Problem
10/09/2020, Giulio Trigilia (Rochester), Voluntary disclosure, moral hazard & default risk
10/02/2020, Ning Gong (Deakin), Partial Information Disclosure and Share Price Volatility
09/25/2020, Stefan Schantl (Melbourne), Rules-Based versus Principles-Based Accounting Standards: A Relevance-Enforceability Tradeoff
09/18/2020, JAR Conference, no webinar
09/11/2020, Wenjie Xue (NUS), On the Real Effects of Asset Write-offs: Theory and Empirical Evidence
09/04/2020, Fanny Camara (USC), Preemption and Forecast Acccuracy: A Structural Approach
08/28/2020, Joyce Tian (Waterloo), CEO Overconfidence, Moral Hazard and Investment
08/21/2020, Zach Kaplan (Wash U), Show Me the Money! Dividend Policy in Countries with Weak Institutions
08/14/2020, Aneesh Raghunandan (London School of Economics), Information Diffusion and Opportunism: Evidence from Occupational Safety Violations
07/24/2020- 08/07/2020, summer school, no webinar
07/17/2020, Tim Shields (Chapman), Accounting Conservatism as a Social Norm
07/10/2020, Tom Ruchti (Carnegie Mellon), The Value of Lending Relationships
07/03/2020, Richard Lowery (Austin), Collusion in Brokered Markets
06/26/2020, Davide Cianciaruso (HEC), Information Design in Financial Markets
06/19/2020, Dan Taylor (Wharton), Voluntary Disclosure when Private Information and Proprietary Costs are Jointly Determined
06/12/2020, Beatrice Michaeli (UCLA), Voluntary Disclosure of Firms Covered by Analysts with Uncertain Forecasting Objective
06/05/2020, Jon Glover (Columbia), Optimal Pay-Performance Sensitivity for Team Incentives between Top Executives
05/29/2020, Seung Lee (Odense), Accounting Information and Contracting Dynamics
05/22/2020, Pierre Chaigneau (Queen), CEO Turnover, Performance Measurement and Monitoring
05/15/2020, Adam Spencer (Nottingham), Policy Effects of International Taxation on Firm Dynamics and Capital Structure
05/08/2020, Carlos Corona (Carnegie Mellon), Accounting Standards Uniformity, Comparability, and Resource Allocation Efficiency
05/01/2020, Tong Lu (Houston), Prudential Regulation under the CECL Model: Reward/Risk and Cycle Turns
04/24/2020, Lucas Mahieux (Tilburg), Interplay between Accounting and Prudential Regulation
04/17/2020, Phil Stocken (Dartmouth), Regulatory Standards, Auditor Industry Specialization, and Audit Quality
04/10/2020, Edwige Cheynel (UCSD), On Market Concentration and Disclosure
04/03/2020, Henry Friedman (UCLA), Interested Intermediaries
03/13/2020, Daniel Rappoport (Chicago), Rank Uncertainty in Organizations
02/28/2020, Snehal Banerjee (UCSD), The Man(ager) Who Knew Too Much
02/14/2020, Minlei Ye (Toronto), Audit Partner Identification, Assignment, and the Labor Market for Audit Talent
01/31/2020, Judson Caskey (UCLA), Investor agreement: Implications for the pricing of idiosyncratic risk
12/06/2019, Xu Jiang (Duke), Why is Certified Financial Reporting Mandatory? A Real-Effects Perspective
11/25/2019, Pierre Liang (Carnegie Mellon), Accounting and Real Effects: A Calibration
11/22/2019, Kevin Smith (Stanford), Learning about Risk-Factor Exposures from Earnings: Implications for Asset Pricing and Manipulation
11/15/2019, Wouter Dessein (Columbia), Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership and Firm Dynamics
11/10/2019, Sri Sridhar (Northwestern), Voluntary Earnings Forecasts, Investment Decisions, and Earnings Management
11/01/2019, Korok Ray (Texas A&M), Performance Targets and Earnings Management
04/10/2019, Ronghuo Zheng (UT Austin), Signaling Entrepreneurial Vision via Information System Design
09/27/2019, Ram Ramanan (SUNY Binghampton), Disclosing to conceal: Impeding competitor learning from the stock market
07/05/2019, Marco Ottaviani (Bocconi), Grantmaking