Seminar Series

If you are interested in presenting your accounting research papers at a future seminar, please contact

Dr Jungbae Kim (jungbaekim@smu.edu.sg) or;
Dr Pengkai Lin (pklin@smu.edu.sg)



Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement
Dr Aaron Yoon
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University


Trade Secret Protection and Firms’ Internal Transparency
Dr Katharina Hombach
Professor, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg


Stealth Acquisitions and Product Market Competition
Dr Christopher Stewart
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago


SEC Regulations and Firms
Dr Xi Wu
Assistant Professor, University of California-Berkeley


Real Effects of Information Frictions Within Regulators: Evidence from Workplace Safety Violations
Dr Aneesh Raghunandan
Assistant Professor, London School of Economics


Information Environment and Cost Asymmetry
Dr Mani Sethuraman
Assistant Professor, Cornell University




Gone with the Big Data: Institutional Lender Demand for Private Information
Dr Jung Koo Kang
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School


The Economic Consequences of Discrete Recognition and Continuous Measurement
Dr Pingyang Gao
Associate Professor, The University of Chicago


A Positive Theory of Information for Debt Contracting: Implications for Financial Reporting
Dr Peter Demerjian
Associate Professor, Georgia State University