Recent PhD Graduates

2025

• Jonas Dalmazzo: (Cornerstone Research) 鈥� 鈥淭he Effects of Alternative Data on Misreporting鈥�
• Yvonne Han: (Cornerstone Research) 鈥� 鈥淭he Precision Trap: How R&D Reclassification Distorts Investment鈥�
• Grant Hayes: (Capital One) 鈥� 鈥淧ublic Promises, Private Choices, and the Credibility of Commitments鈥�

2024

• Roope Keloharju: (Aalto University School of Business) 鈥� 鈥淗idden Ownership: Money Laundering Enforcement and Its Impact on Tax Haven Firms鈥� Ownership Disclosures鈥� 
• Maria Khrakovsky: (Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University) 鈥� 鈥淒isrupting Consistency in Accounting鈥� 
• Fabian Nagel: (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) 鈥� 鈥淐onsumer Bankruptcy Audits鈥� 
• Hristiana Vidinova: (McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin) 鈥� 鈥淔orward-Looking Loan Loss Provisioning Under Imperfect Forecasts鈥� 

2023

• June Huang (Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas, Dallas) 鈥� 鈥淭he politics of CSR activity: Evidence from press releases鈥�
• Kalash Jain (Columbia Business School, Columbia University) 鈥� 鈥淧rocessing Industry Classification鈥�
  
• Sinja Leonelli (Stern School of Business, New York University) 鈥� 鈥淢inority Whistleblowers: Evidence from the LGBTQ+ Community鈥�
  

2022

• Gurpal Sran (NYU Stern School of Business) - 鈥淒isclosing Labor Demand鈥�
• Lauren Vollon (Universit脿 Bocconi) 鈥� 鈥淰enture Capital and Private M&A Contracting鈥�
  

2021

• (Harvard Business School, Harvard University) 鈥� 鈥淭he Green Bonding Hypothesis: How do Green Bonds Enhance the Credibility of Environmental Commitments?鈥�
• (SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University) 鈥� 鈥淒isclosure Externalities from Strategic Interactions: Evidence from Bank Liquidity Disclosure鈥�

2020

• :  (Columbia Business School at Columbia University) 鈥� "Do Auditors Help Prevent Data Breaches?"
• : (Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College) - 鈥淎ssessing Human Information Processing in Lending Decisions: A Machine Learning Approach鈥�
• Johanna Shin: (The Analysis Group) -  鈥淚nstitutional Investors as Information Suppliers: Evidence from Investment Conferences鈥�

2019

• (Yale School of Management at Yale University) 鈥� 鈥淭he Economic Consequences of Financial Statement Audit Regulation in the Charitable Sector鈥�
• (Columbia Business School at Columbia University) 鈥� 鈥淒o Delays in Banks鈥� Loan Loss Provisioning Affect Economic Downturns? Evidence from the U.S. Housing Market鈥�
• (College of Business at City University of Hong Kong) 鈥� 鈥淟imited Attention: Implications for Financial Reporting鈥�
• (Yale School of Management at Yale University) 鈥� 鈥淒oes fiscal monitoring make better governments? Evidence from US municipalities鈥�
• Ling Yang (Smith School of Business at Queen鈥檚 University) -  鈥淲hy Was Loan Loss Provisioning Delayed During the 2008 Financial Crisis? An Information Quality-Based Explanation鈥�

2018

• (Columbia Business School at Columbia University) 鈥� 鈥淗ow Does Financial Reporting Regulation Affect Market-Wide Resource Allocation?鈥�
• (Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University) 鈥� 鈥淓lectronic Proxy Statements Dissemination and Shareholder Monitoring鈥�
• (Cornerstone Research 鈥� NYC) 鈥� 鈥淎ccruals Quality and Firm Value鈥�

2017

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

2016

• (The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania) - 鈥淒isclosure Dynamics and Investor Learning鈥�
• (Stanford University Graduate School of Business) - 鈥淎ssessing the Effects of Disclosing Management Compensation鈥�

2015

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

2014

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

2013

• (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" 
• (Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management) - "Corporate Lobbying and Financial Statements: Evidence from the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004"
• (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"
• , MBA '11 (Georgetown University) - "Accounting Fraud: Booms, Busts, and Incentives to Perform"
• (Columbia University) - "Investor Sophistication, Disclosure and the Information Environment of the Firm"
• , MBA '11 (Florida International University) - "An Empirical Examination of Disclosure Horizon: Evidence from the Term Structure of Implied Equity Volatilities"

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