School of Accountancy

Seminar Series

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

Dr Samuel Tan (samueltan@smu.edu.sg) or;
Dr Jungbae Kim (jungbaekim@smu.edu.sg)



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


Assessing Human Information Processing in Lending Decisions: A Machine Learning Approach
Dr Miao Liu
Assistant Professor, Boston College


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


The Information Environment, Volatility Structure, and Liquidity
Dr Dan Amiram
Professor of Business, Tel Aviv University


CEOs’ Letters to Shareholders: Do Investors Use Them? Evidence from S&P 500 Firms
Dr Shuping Chen
Wilton E & Catherine A Thomas Professor, The University of Texas at Austin