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

All presentations will be held in the Lin Technology Classroom #4400 and refreshments will be served outside the classroom.

Friday, October 11, 2019

11:15-11:40	Meet at the registration table outside of Lin Technology Classroom (4400)
11:45	Lunch at the New Haven Lawn Club After meeting at the registration table, the group will walk over together
1:00-2:20	Rajiv Banker, Temple University “Business Strategy and Financial Accounting Research: A Text-Analysis Approach”
2:20-2:40	Break
2:40-4:00	Volker Laux, University of Texas at Austin “Managerial Optimism and Debt Covenants”
4:00-4:20	Break
4:20-5:40	Heidi Packard, University of Michigan “The Cyclicality of CEO Turnover”
6:00	Dinner at Florian Restaurant

Saturday, October 12, 2019

8:00 – 8:30	Breakfast
8:30 – 9:50	Yaniv Konchitchki, University of California at Berkeley “Accounting Information and the Macroeconomy: A New Perspective”
9:50 – 10:10	Break
10:10– 11:30	Lin Nan, Purdue University “Learning From And Disclosing To The Crowd”
11:30 – 11:50	Break
11:50 – 1:10	Erik Olson, Yale Univeristy “Unlocked Trapped Foreign Cash, Investor Types & Firm Payout Policy”
1:10	Box Lunch

Thomas Steffen
Assistant Professor of Accounting

Zeqiong Huang
Assistant Professor of Accounting

Ryenne Carpenter
Conference Coordinator