Name: 2018 Yale SOM Accounting Recruiting Conference
Start: 2018-02-09T08:30:00-05:00
End: 2018-02-10T17:15:00-05:00

This event is being held at the Yale School of Management and is by invitation only.

All presentations and meals will be held in the Farr Classroom #4420

Friday, February 9, 2018

08:30 – 09:00	Breakfast
09:00 – 10:15	Kevin Smith, University of Pennsylvania “Option Prices and Disclosure.”
10:15 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 11:45	Nick Guest, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Do Journalists Help Investors Analyze Firms’ Earnings News?”
11:45 – 13:00	Lunch
13:00 – 14:15	Jessica Watkins, Indiana University “The Timeliness and Detail Tradeoff in the Mandatory Disclosure of Material Events.”
14:15 – 14:30	Break
14:30 – 15:45	Jim Omartian, University of North Carolina “Do Banks Aid and Abet Asset Concealment: Evidence from the Panama Papers.”
15:45– 16:00	Break
16:00 – 17:15	Erik Johannesson, Columbia University “Former Insiders’ Trading.”
18:00	Dinner at Faculty Member’s Home

Saturday, February 10, 2018

08:30 – 09:00	Breakfast
09:00 – 10:15	Travis Dyer, University of North Carolina “Does Public Information Acquisition Level the Playing Field of Widen the Gap? An Analysis of Local and Non-Local Investors.”
10:15 – 10:30	Break
10:30– 11:45	Matthias Breuer, University of Chicago “How Does Financial-Reporting Regulation Affect Market-Wide Resource Allocation?”
11:45 – 13:00	Lunch
13:00 – 14:15	Christina Zhu, Stanford University “Big Data as a Governance Mechanism.”
14:15 – 14:30	Break
14:30 – 15:45	Stephen Glaeser, University of Pennsylvania “The Effects of Proprietary Information on Corporate Disclosure and Transparency: Evidence from Trade Secrets.”
15:45 – 16:00	Break
16:00 – 17:15	Trung Nguyen, Stanford University “The Effectiveness of White-Collar Crime Enforcement: Evidence from the War on Terror.”

Thomas Steffen
Assistant Professor of Accounting