The 9th Tel Aviv International Conference in Accounting
The Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration at Tel Aviv University will host the 9th annual International Conference in Accounting on Sunday, June 21 through Tuesday, June 23, 2015. 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.
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Sunday, June 21st |
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12:30 – 13:15 |
Registration and Coffee |
Recanati 402 |
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13:15 – 13:30 |
Greetings |
Recanati 303 |
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Session I 13:30 – 18:00 |
Chair: Brett Trueman (UCLA) |
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13:30 – 14:30 |
Shyam Sunder (Yale) Financial Engineering and the Arms Race Between Accounting Standard Setters and Preparers
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Recanati 303 |
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14:30 – 15:30 |
Pingyang Gao (Chicago) |
Recanati 303 |
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Reporting Discretion, Market Discipline, and Panic Runs
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
Recanati 402 |
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16:00 – 17:00 |
Masako Darrough (Baruch College) |
Recanati 303 |
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The Impact of International Financial Reporting Standards on Comparability:
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17:00 – 18:00 |
Tsahi Versano (Tel Aviv University) |
Recanati 303 |
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Cross-Firm Earnings Management
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19:00 – 21:00 |
Dinner – Bariba (Tel Aviv Harbor) |
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Monday, June 22nd |
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Session II 9:00 – 12:30 |
Chair: Yossi Aharony (TAU) |
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10:00 – 09:00 |
Dan Givoly (Penn State) |
Recanati 303
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Does the Tail Wag the Dog: Small – Firm Bias in Capital Market Research |
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10:00-11:00 |
Paul Zarowin (NYU) |
Recanati 303 |
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SFAS 142, Conditional Conservatism,
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Coffee Break |
Recanati 402 |
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11:30 – 12:30 |
Mary Ellen Carter (Boston College) |
Recanati 303 |
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Private information and the Issuance of Stock Options
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12:45 – 14:00 |
Lunch (The Green House, Tel Aviv Univ.) |
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Session III 14:00 – 17:30 |
Chair: Steven Orpurt (ASU) |
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14:00 – 15:00 |
Henry Friedman (UCLA) Capital Market Development and the Strength of Financial Auditing and Reporting Standards |
Recanati 303 |
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15:00 – 16:00 |
Gil Sadka (UT Dallas) Conditional Earnings Dispersion, the Macroeconomy and Aggregate Stock Returns |
Recanati 303 |
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16:00 – 16:30 |
Coffee Break |
Recanati 402 |
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16:30 – 17:30 |
Yaniv Konchitchki (UC Berkeley) |
Recanati 303 |
Tuesday, June 23
A guided 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
