Education
Ph.D. (Accounting), University of Pennsylvania, December 2005
BBA (Finance and Accounting), University of Michigan, May 1999
Academic Positions
Purdue University, Assistant Professor of Accounting, 2012-present
University of Arizona, Assistant Professor of Accounting, 2005-2012
Purdue University, Visiting Professor, Fall 2009
Refereed Publications
"Financial Reporting Quality, Investment Horizon, and Institutional Investor Trading Strategies" with Brian Bushee and Shyam Sunder, The Accounting Review, 94 (2019): 87-112.
"Fundamental Analysis and Option Returns" (with Monica Neamtiu and Frank Zhang), Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, 33 (2018):72-97.
"The Effects of Ownership and Compensation Practices on Charitable Activities" (with Leslie Eldenburg and Fabio Gaertner), Contemporary Accounting Research, 32 (2015): 169-192.
"Management Forecast Quality and Capital Investment Decisions" (with Monica Neamtiu, Nemit Shroff, and Hal White), The Accounting Review, 89 (2014): 331-365.
"Does Investment-related Pressure Lead to Misreporting? An Analysis of Reporting following M&A transactions" (with Dan Bens and Monica Neamtiu), The Accounting Review 87 (2012): 839-865.
"Which Institutional Investors Trade Based on Private Information about Earnings and Returns?" (with Brian Bushee), Journal of Accounting Research 45 (2007): 1-31.
Working Papers
"The Incidence, Valuation, and Management of Tax-related Reputational Costs: Evidence from the Occupy Wall Street Movement" with Dan Dhaliwal, P.J. Hoffman, and Casey Schwab
- Revising to resubmit to Journal of the American Tax Association
- Presented at 2018 ATA midyear meeting and 2018 AAA Annual meeting
"Human Capital, Goodwill, and Acquisition Performance?" with Curtis Hall, Monica Neamtiu, and MaryJane Rabier
- Under review at Management Science
- Presented at 2018 AAA Annual meeting
"Does the Influence of Competition and Compensation on Hospital Quality Vary with Ownership Type" with Leslie Eldenburg and Linda Chen
- Under review at Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
- An earlier version was presented at 2015 AAA Annual meeting
"Slack and Crash Risk" with Volkan Muslu and Hyungshin Park
- Presented at 2017 FARS Mid-year meeting, 2016 Accounting Conference at Temple University
"Institutional investors and auditor-specifc risk" with Brian Bushee and Phil Lamoreaux
