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.
The format for the 2021-2022 webinar series is a weekly meeting but with a rotation of (1) AES Big Topics, (2) Theory Talks, (3) Research Webinars, (4) AES tutorials. AES Big Topics Talks are conversations with a scholar to discuss big unanswered questions of accounting and open new areas of research in an interview format that is less constraining that a formal seminar. Theory talks are conversations about new working papers and published research in the form of podcast and open audience (everyone is invited!). Webinars are regular working papers; finally AES tutorials are methodological topics of interest. If you would like to present a paper, please send us an email to admin@accountingtheory.org.
Link to Webinar
https://wustl.zoom.us/j/93012884289
New Schedule Fall 2021
(rotation: AES Big Topics, AES tutorials, Theory Talks and Webinars)
New Schedule Winter-Spring 2022
01/14/2022, Accounting for Risk, with Stephen Penman (Columbia)
01/21/2022, Zeqiong Huang (Yale), Net Income Measurement, Investor Inattention, and Firm Decisions
01/28/2022, AES tutorials: Writing and Presenting Theory
02/04/2022, AES Theory Talks: Philosophy of Science in Economics and Accounting
02/11/2022: How Computer Science is Changing Accounting, with Miklos Vasarhelyi (Rutgers)
02/18/2022: AES Theory Talks: New Research and Accounting Challenges in Banking
02/28/2022, AES tutorials: Running Experiments
03/04/2022: [TBA], with Christian Leuz (Chicago)
03/25/2022: AES Theory Talks: Using the Lab in Accounting Research
04/8/2022, From Casual to Causal Inference Redux: How does Theory Help Causal Inference, with Dan Taylor (Wharton)
05/13/2022, [TBA] Anne Beyer (Stanford)
Fall 2021
9/10/2021, From Dawn to Dusk? Origins and Evolutions of Accounting Across the Ages, conversation, with Sudipta Basu (Temple) and Greg Waymire (Emory)
9/17/2021, AES Theory Talks: Bringing Accounting Theory in the Classroom
9/24/2021, The Pulls of Psychology and Economics, with Steve Kachelmeier (Austin)
10/1/2021, AES tutorials: Dynamic Programming in Matlab, code and model, lecture 1 (value function iteration), lecture 2 (simulation and estimation)
10/8/2021, AES Theory Talks: Contemporary Topics in Financial Accounting Research
10/15/2021, JAE conference, no webinar
10/22/2021, Conservatism: the Most Important and Misunderstood Feature of Accounting, with Chandra Kanodia (Minnesota)
10/29/2021, JAR Registered Reports conference, no webinar
11/5/2021, AES Theory Talks: Can Accounting Survive as an Academic Discipline without Testing Theory?
11/12/2021, AES tutorials: Continuous-time contracting theory
11/19/2021, Living real-world Accounting Problems as a Scholar, with Rick Antle (Yale)
12/3/2021, AES tutorials: Global games
12/10/2021, RASt conference, no webinar
Past Webinars
05/28/2021, Bradyn Breon-Drish (UCSD), Investment Efficiency and Welfare with Feedback Effects
05/21/2021, Eva Labro (UNC), Managing Employee Retention Concerns: Evidence from US Census Data
05/7/2021, JAR Conference, no webinar
04/30/2021, Gilles Chemla (Imperial), Signaling, Instrumentation, and CFO Decision-Making
04/23/2021, Paolo Fulghieri (UNC), Uncertainty, Contracting, and Beliefs in Organizations
04/16/2021, Jonathan Bonham (Chicago), Contracting on what Firm Owners Value
04/09/2021, Columbia Burton Conference, no webinar
04/02/2021, Matthias Breuer (Columbia), Learning to Disclose: Disclosure Dynamics in the 1890s Streetcar Industry
03/26/2021, Jungho Choi (Stanford), Job Search with Financial Information: Theory and Evidence
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, Liyan Yang (Toronto), Whoever Has Will Be Given More: Information Sharing in Financial Markets
02/26/2021, Nick Dopuch Conference and University of Houston Conference, no webinar
02/19/2021, Chen Li (NYU Shanghai), Was Sarbanes-Oxley Costly? Evidence from Optimal Contracting on CEO Compensation
02/12/2021, Cyrus Aghamolla (Minnesota), Sequential Reporting Bias
02/05/2021, Lucas Mahieux (Tilburg), Monitoring Spillovers Between Competing Passive and Active Asset Managers
01/29/2021, Pablo Casas-Arce (Arizona), Motivating through Managing by Walking Around
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