JATC 2014

The fourth year of the JATC was in Atlanta, GA, August 3rd 2014 and sponsored by the J. Mack Robinson College of Business.

Conference Program 2014

8:00 - 8:25 Breakfast

8:25 - 8:30 Introduction by D. Stevens, Georgia State University

8:30 - 9:30 Asymmetric reporting

Dan Taylor, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

9:30 - 10:30 Reporting Discretion, Market Discipline, and Panic-based Runs

Xu Jiang, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

10:30 - 11:00 Break/coffee

11:00 - 12:00 Information Quality, Debt Contracting, and Endogenous Project Outcome

Xiaoyan Wen, School of Business, University of Illinois at Chicago

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:00 Conservative accounting, agent’s participation andstewardship value

Francois Larmande, School of Business, EM-Lyon

14:00 - 15:00 A Theory of Prominent Disclosure

Jack Stecher, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

15:00 - 15:30 Break/coffee

15:30 - 16:30 Shareholder Empowerment and Board of Directors Effectiveness

George Drymiotes, Neeley School of Business,Texas Christian University

Registered participants