ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
New York University,
Stern School of Business
Assistant Professor of Accounting, (June
2005 - present).
Associate Editor, Journal of Accounting and Economics
For the current academic
year (2009-2010):
University of
Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
Visiting Assistant Professor of
Accounting
EDUCATION
Ph.D.: Accounting, Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois, (June 2004).
M.B.A.: Finance, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, (July 1999).
B.A.: Economics and Statistics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel,
(July 1997).
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Research: Financial Reporting and
Disclosure; Economics Consequences of Discretionary Accounting Choices;
Analyst Forecasts.
Teaching: Introductory Financial
Accounting; Intermediate Financial Accounting; Financial Statement
Analysis; Security Analysis and Valuation.
PUBLICATIONS
Warranty Reserve: Contingent
Liability, Information Signal, or Earnings Management Tool? (With M.
Darrough, R. Huang, and T. Zach), Forthcoming, The Accounting Review.
The Use of Advertising
Activities to Meet Earnings Benchmarks: Evidence from Monthly Data. (With
R. Mashruwala and T. Zach), Review of
Accounting Studies 15 (4), December 2010.
Accrual-Based and Real
Earnings Management Activities around Seasoned Equity Offerings. (With P.
Zarowin), Journal of Accounting and
Economics 50(1), May 2010: 2-19 (Lead Article).
The ‘Numbers Game’ in the
Pre- and Post-Sarbanes Oxley Eras. (With E. Bartov), Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance 24(4), Fall 2009:
505-534.
Venture Capital Financing and
the Informativeness of Earnings. (With N. Langberg), Asia Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics 16(2), August 2009: 171-190.
Does Information Risk Really Matter? An Analysis of the
Determinants and Economic Consequences of Financial Reporting Quality, Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and
Economics 15 (2), August 2008: 69-90.
Real and Accrual-based Earnings Management in the Pre-
and Post-Sarbanes Oxley Periods, (With A. Dey and T. Lys), The Accounting Review, May 2008, 82
(3): 757-787.
Earnings Announcement Premia and the Limits to Arbitrage, (With A. Dey,
T. Lys and S. Sunder), Journal of
Accounting and Economics, July 2007, 43: 153-180 (Lead Article).
Another Look at GAAP Versus
The Street: An Empirical Assessment of Measurement Error Bias, (With R.
Hann and M. Ogneva), Review of
Accounting Studies, September 2007, 12: 271-303.
Weighing the evidence on the
relation between external corporate financing activities, accruals and
stock returns, (With T. Lys), Journal
of Accounting and Economics,
October 2006, 42: 87-105.
A Note on Analysts’ Earnings Forecasts Errors Distribution. (With T.
Lys), Journal of Accounting and
Economics, December 2003, 36: 147-164.
Substitution between Diesel and Petrol Engines in Private Automobiles:
Effects on the Israeli Economy, (With E. Sandrow), Israeli Taxation Quarterly, (April 1998).
WORKING PAPERS:
For the most updated versions click on the following link:
My Papers on SSRN
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