Speakers

Neil D. Pearson is the Harry A. Brandt Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Research Fellow of the Canadian Derivatives Institute. He previously served on the faculty of the Simon Graduate School of Business Administration...
Dimitris Papanikolaou is a professor in Finance at Kellogg School of Management.
Professor Olson is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Vanderbilt. His research interests include capital markets, taxation, corporate governance, and institutional investors. His job market paper examines whether investor types influence firm payout policy decisions (share repurchases and dividends). In...
Ken Merkley is a professor in Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
Dr. Juan Mao is an associate professor of accounting at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Mao earned her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and has received training in both accounting and information systems. Her main research interests...
Wayne Landsman’s research focuses on the role of accounting information in capital price formation. Topics of research include pensions, employee stock options, asset securitisation and fair value accounting. He teaches courses in financial accounting and financial reporting. Dr. Landsman served...
George Korniotis is a professor of finance at the Miami Herbert Business School at the University of Miami. He is also a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Before joining the University of Miami, he taught at...
Sofia Johan is an Associate Professor of Finance at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University and a Phil Smith Fellow at The Phil Smith Center for Free Enterprise at the College of Business. Also, Sofia is a Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance at the...
Iftekhar Hasan holds the title of university professor at Fordham University, where he also serves as the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in Finance, academic director of the Ph.D. program, and co-director of the Center for Research in Contemporary Finance at the Gabelli...
Elizabeth A. Gordon is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Accounting at the Fox School. She specialises in the areas of financial reporting and international accounting investigating topics such as international financial reporting standards, corporate communications, executive compensation,...