The 10th Tel Aviv Conference in Accounting

Tel Aviv University will host the 10th annual conference in accounting on Sunday, June 19 through Tuesday, June 21, 2016. During the first day and a half of the conference, 10 academic papers will be presented in three sessions. On the third day we shall go on a guided tour to Jerusalem. Here is a tentative plan.

Sunday, June 19st

 

 

 

 

 

12:30 – 13:15

Registration and Coffee

Recanati 402

 

 

 

13:15 – 13:30

Greetings

Recanati 405

 

 

 

Session I 13:30 – 15:30

Chair: Yossi Aharony (TAU)

 

 

 

 

13:30 – 14:30

Stephen Penman (Columbia)

Recanati 405

 

Accounting-based Estimates of the Cost of Capital: A Third Way

 

14:30 – 15:30

Regina Wittenberg Moerman (USC)

Recanati 405

 

Enhancing Loan Quality through Transparency: Evidence from the European Central Bank Loan Level Reporting Initiative

 

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee Break

Recanati 402

Session II 16:00 – 18:00

Chair: Yacov Amihud (NYU)

16:00 – 17:00

Jonathan Glover (Columbia)

Recanati 405

 

Accounting Conservatism and Incentives: Intertemporal Considerations

 

17:00 – 18:00

Jack Stecher (Carnegie Melon)

Recanati 405

 

Do Mandatory Liquidity Disclosures Foster or Forestall Coordination Failures?

 

19:00 – 21:00

Dinner – Bariba (Tel Aviv Harbor)

 

 

 

 

Monday, June 20th

 

 

 

 

 

Session III 9:00 – 12:30

Chair: Tsahi Versano (TAU)

 

 

 

 

10:00 – 09:00

Rachel Hayes (Utah)

Recanati 405

 

Growth Matters: Disclosure Level and Risk Premium

 

10:00 – 11:00

Dan Weiss (Tel Aviv U.)

Recanati 405

 

Executive Compensation and Operating Leverage

 

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

Recanati 402

 

 

 

11:30 – 12:30

Xiao-Jun Zhang (Berkeley)

Recanati 405

 

Mixing Fair-Value and Historical-Cost Accounting: Predictable OCI and Mispricing of Bank Stocks

 

12:45 – 14:00

Lunch -2nd floor Patio, The Faculty of Management, TAU.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session IV 14:00 – 17:30

Chair: Naomi Soderstrom (Melbourne U.)

 

 

 

 

14:00 – 15:00

Peter Pope (LSE)

Recanati 405

 

Balance sheet quality and public debt contracting

 

15:00 – 16:00

Yuan Zhang (U.T. Dallas)

Recanati 405

 

Are Outside Directors with SEC Investigation Experience Better Monitors?

 

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee Break

Recanati 402

 

 

 

16:30 – 17:30

Marlene Plumlee (Utah)

Recanati 405

  The Impact of Earnings Announcements on a Firm’s Information Environment  

 

Tuesday, June 21st

A guided day tour to Jerusalem. A bus will leave from the Crowne Plaza Hotel at 7:30 a.m. via Tel Aviv University campus at 7:50 a.m. Lunch is included. Approximate return time to Tel Aviv: 7:00 p.m.

 

Conference co-organizers

 

                                    Eli Amir                                                     Shai Levi

                          (eliamir@post.tau.ac.il)                               (shailevi@tau.ac.il)

 

Conference administrative assistant:

 

Mrs. Limor Spigler (limorsp@tauex.tau.ac.il) Cell phone: 054-4296434

Faculty of Management, Recanati building, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997864 Israel

 

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