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 2220 Jones Classroom.

Friday, January 25, 2019

08:30 – 09:00	Breakfast
09:00 – 10:15	Raphael Duguay, University of Chicago “The Economic Consequences of Financial Audit Regulation in the Charitable Sector”
10:15 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 11:45	Ashley Sauciuc, University of Arizona “The Effects of Pay Raise Frequency within Groups on Collusion”
11:45 – 13:00	Lunch
13:00 – 14:15	Ties de Kok, Tilburg University “Reporting Frequency and Market Pressure in Crowdfunding Markets”
14:15 – 14:30	Break
14:30 – 15:45	Antonis Kartapanis, The University of Texas at Austin “Activist Short-Sellers and Accounting Fraud Allegations”
15:45– 16:00	Break
16:00 – 17:15	Jody Grewal, Harvard Business School “Disclosure of Emerging Trends: Evidence from Climate Change Business Opportunities”
18:00	Dinner at Faculty Member’s Home

Saturday, January 26, 2019

08:30 – 09:00	Breakfast
09:00 – 10:15	Anya Nakhmurina, University of Chicago “Does Fiscal Monitoring Make Better Governments? Evidence from US Municipalities”
10:15 – 10:30	Break
10:30– 11:45	Albert Kwame Mensah, City University of Hong Kong “Corporate Political Connectedness, Accounting Quality, and Accruals-Based Target Beating: A Quasi-Natural Experiment”
11:45 – 13:00	Lunch
13:00 – 14:15	Matthew Shaffer, Harvard Business School “Truth and Bias in M&A Target Fairness Valuations: Appraising the Appraisals”
14:15 – 14:30	Break
14:30 – 15:45	Kristen Valentine, University of Texas at Austin “Can Disclosure Regulation Impede Innovation?”
15:45 – 16:00	Break
16:00 – 17:15	Maximilian Muhn, Humboldt University of Berlin “Financial Transparency of Private Firms: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment”

Thomas Steffen
Assistant Professor of Accounting

Zeqiong Huang
Assistant Professor of Accounting

Marisa Berti
Conference Coordinator