Speaker Series

                                            Shidler Seminars  AY 2015 – AY 2024
DateNameTitleInstitutionTopic
11/22/2024Cyrus AghamollaAssociate Professor of AccountingRice UniversityWhen Private Equity Comes to Town: The Local Economic
4/26/2024Peter R. DemerjianProfessor of AccountingGeorgia State UniversityDoes Credit Rating Inflation Influence Loan Contract Design?
04/05/2024Sunil DuttaProfessor of AccountingUniversity of California, BerkeleyInnovation Incentives And Competition For Corporate Resources
3/5/2024Lori BhaskarAssociate Professor of AccountingIndiana UniversityYou’ve Got A Chatbot Friend In Me: Do Generative AI Chatbots Improve The Quality Of Auditors’ Speak Up Decisions?
3/1/2024Mary BarthEmerita Professor of AccountingStanford UniversityInformation Supporting Investor Valuations: Evidence From A Comparative Content Analysis Of Analyst Reports And Form 10-K
 1/3/2024Siew Hong TeohProfessor of AccountingUniversity of California, Los AngelesHARC 2024 Keynote Speaker
2/17/2023Joanna WuProfessor of Accounting University of RochesterGeopolitical Uncertainty and Foreign Investors in China
 1/3/2023Charles M. C. LeeProfessor of AccountingUniversity of WashingtonHARC 2023 Keynote Speaker
1/3/2022Sudipta BasuAssociate Dean for Research and Doctoral ProgramsTemple UniversityHARC 2022 Keynote Speaker
1/3/2021 Katherine Schipper Professor of Business AdministrationDuke University HARC 2021 Keynote Speaker
What Makes Accounting Research Consequential?
10/9/2020 Brian Bushee Professor of Accounting University of Pennsylvania Co-opetition and the Firm’s Information Environment
9/25/2020 Hongping Tan Associate Professor of Accounting  McGill University Corporate Textual Disclosure and Economic Growth 
4/17/2020 Gilles Hilary Professor of Accounting Georgetown University Mandatory Data Breach Disclosure and Insider Trading 
2/21/2020 Xiumin Martin Professor of Accounting Washington University in Saint Louis On the Fast Track: Information Acquisition Costs and Information Production  
1/3/2020Christine Ann BotosanBoard MemberFinancial Accounting Standards BoardHARC 2020 Keynote Speaker
11/22/2019 Mark Bradshaw  Professor of Accounting Boston College An Examination of the Listing of Analyst Coverage on Corporate Websites 
11/15/2019 Daniel Talyor Associate Professor of Accounting   University of Pennsylvania  Undisclosed SEC Investigations 
10/21/2019 Ali Hadjarian Partner Pwc "Accounting and Machine Learning" and "Expected Changes in Accounting/Auditing for Hawai'i Companies"  
4/26/2019 Jeffrey Pittman Professor of AccountingMemorial University of NewfoundlandNavigating the Review Process at Major Accounting Journals 
4/19/2019 Shyam Sunder Professor of AccountingYale University Speculation, Money Supply and Price Indeterminacy in Financial Markets: An Experimental Study 
3/29/2019 Sarah McVay  Professor in Accounting  University of Washington  Does a Demise in GAAP Explain the Rise of non-GAAP? 
1/3/2019Terry ShevlinEmeritus Professor of AccountingUniversity of California, IrvineHARC 2019 Keynote Speaker
9/28/2018 Sophia J.W. Hamm Assistant Professor of Accounting and MIS Ohio State University Earnings Guidance, and Stock Price Crash Risk 
9/25/2018Nhat (Nate) Q. Nguyen Assistant Professor of Accounting University of Lowa Managerial Sentiment and Conditional Conservatism  
9/21/2018 Michael Jung Assistant Professor of Accounting NYU How Transparent are Firms about their Corporate Venture Capital Investments? 
9/7/2018 You-il (Chris) Park Assistant Professor of Accounting Nanyang Technological University Accounting Standards and Predictive Ability of Aggregate Accruals for Economic Growth 
4/6/2018 David Wood Associate Professor   Brigham Young University Robotic Process Automation in Public Accounting  
3/2/2018 Gwen Yu Associate Professor of Accounting University of Michigan Managers’ Cultural Background and Disclosure Attributes 
1/22/2018 Jee-Hae Lim Associate ProfessorUniversity of Waterloo Mandatory XBRL Adoption and Credit Default Swap Spreads 
1/3/2018David BurgstahlerProfessor of AccountingUniversity of WashingtonHARC 2018 Keynote Speaker
11/3/2017 Mike Drake Professor of Accounting Brigham Young University Is there Information Content in Information Acquisition? 
4/7/2017 Oliver Li Professor in Sustainability National University of Singapore  Of Stars and Galaxies – Co-authorship Network and Research 
12/8/2016 Albert Tsang Associate Professor of Accounting York University  The Heterogeneity of Media Bias and Analyst Earnings Forecasts  
8/24/2016 Sudipta Basu Professor of Accounting Temple University Director Liability Reduction Laws and Conditional Conservatism 
3/16/2016 Bharat Sarath Professor of Accounting and Information SystemsRutgers Business School Audit Quality within Adverse Selection Markets 
2/19/2016 Dawn Matsumoto Professor in Accounting University of Washington Firm-Manager Matching and the Costs and Benefits of Hiring an Accounting Expert CFO  
1/15/2016 Jeffrey Callen Professor of Accounting  University of Toronto Testing the Transparency Implications of Mandatory IFRS Adoption: The Spread/Maturity Relation of Credit Default Swaps  
12/4/2015 Mohammad Abdolmohammadi Professor of Accounting Bentley University Correlates of External Quality Assessment and Improvement Programs in Internal Auditing: A Study of 68 Countries 
9/25/2015 Ferdinand A. Gul Professor of Accounting and Corporate Governance Monash University Malaysia Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow and the CEO Pay-Performance Relationship