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)



How Do Social Norms Travel Across the US? Evidence from CSR Activism
Dr Steven F Cahan
Professor of Financial Accounting, University of Auckland


Carrots or Sticks? The Effect of Incentive Framing on Radical and Incremental Innovation
Dr Clara Chen
Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


The Smoothing and Informativeness of GAAP Effective Tax Rates
Dr Petro Lisowsky
Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Do Career Concerns Affect the Delay of Bad News Disclosure?
Dr John Campbell
Associate Professor, University of Georgia


Real Effects of Financial Reporting Quality and Credibility: Evidence from the PCAOB Regulatory Regime
Dr Nemit Shroff
Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Do Client Characteristics Really Drive the Big N Audit Quality Effect?
Dr Mark DeFond
A N Mosich Chair Professor of Accounting, University of Southern California (Cheng Tsang Man Visiting Professor, Singapore Management University)


Earnings Management and Annual Report Readability
Dr Rafael Rogo
Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia




Once Lucky, Always Lucky? Institutional Trading in a Connected World
Dr Hai Lu
Associate Professor, University of Toronto


Firm Opacity, Analyst Forecasts, and Investor Reaction
Dr Jennifer Wu Tucker
Associate Professor, University of Florida