BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of JOSHUA RONEN

Joshua Ronen is Professor of Accounting at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He earned a BA degree in Economics from the Hebrew University, Israel, a professional CPA degree from the Hebrew University, a post graduate diploma in financial management from Stanford University and a doctorate (1969) in Business Administration from Stanford University. Prior to joining the Stern School of Business at New York University he served as a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. He has been a visiting professor at leading academic institutions in Canada, Australia, England, Germany, Italy, Israel, Hong-Kong, Taiwan, New Zealand, Brazil, and Mexico, including the London School of Economics, the University of Toronto, Tel-Aviv University, the University of Frankfurt, Germany, the University of Melbourne, Australia, the university of Siena, Italy, and the university of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has lectured extensively in various programs in numerous countries.

Professor Ronen served as associate director of research for the AICPA Accounting Objective Study Group, and in that capacity was intimately involved in formulating the objectives of financial statements which were ultimately incorporated into the Financial Accounting Standard Board’s Conceptual Framework. He also served as President of the Price Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies, and as Director of the Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research at the Stern School of Business, New York University.

He has served or is serving on the boards of numerous journals including the Journal of Accounting Research, the Accounting Review, Accounting, Organization and Society, Management Science, Journal of Business Research, the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Behavioral Economics, and the Journal of Management and Governance. He also served as Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance.

Professor Ronen has published numerous books, monographs and articles in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Management Science, Psychology, and the popular press (such as the New York Times), in journals such as the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, the Accounting Review, the Review of Accounting Studies, the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Abacus, the Journal of Finance, The Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Business, Management Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Performance. His recent singly authored or co-authored books include Smoothing Income Numbers: Objectives, Means and Implications (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1981), Entrepreneurship, ed. (Lexington Books Publishing Company, 1983), Off-Balance Sheet Activities, ed. (Quorum Books, 1990), Accounting and Financial Globalization, ed., (Quorum Books, 1991), and Earnings Management: Emerging Insights in Theory, Practice, and Research (Springer, 2008). He is currently working on a new book, Applications of Game Theory to Accounting. His research interests include the information content of accounting announcements, income smoothing, transfer pricing under uncertainty, incentives for information disclosure, anomalies in capital markets, rational expectation models, incentive contracting, market microstructure, and the market structure of auditing services. He has served on over thirty five doctoral dissertation and has chaired over twenty five of them. His students serve or have served on the faculties of leading business schools around the world, including Harvard University, Stanford University, Columbia University, and the University of Michigan.

Professor Ronen has served as a consultant to several corporations and financial institutions and to numerous law firms in the United States and internationally. He served as an advisor to international and government organizations and agencies including the Israeli Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Securities Exchange Commission of Israel.

Recently, Professor Ronen's scheme for financial statements insurance has gained wide publicity.  His Op-Ed page article in the New York Times was favorably commented on in the Wall Street Journal, and was adopted by Elizabeth Dole as a major campaign theme in her race for the North Carolina Senate seat.  After having been elected she introduced the idea at the Senate Banking Committee.