Faculty profiles
Eli Amir
BA (Tel Aviv) MSc PhD (University of California, Berkeley)
Visiting Professor of Accounting
- Subject area:
- Accounting
Publications
Accounting, Valuation and Duration of Football Player Contracts (with G Livne), Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting (2005); Do Financial Analysts Get Intangibles? (with B Lev and T Sougiannis), European Accounting Review (2003); The Aggregation and Valuation of Deferred Taxes (with M Kirschenheiter and K Willard), Review of Accounting Studies (2001); Analysts' Interpretation and Investors' Valuation of Tax Carryforwards (with T Sougiannis), Contemporary Accounting Research (1999); Overreaction and Underreaction in Analysts' Forecasts (with Y Ganzach), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (1998); Recognize, Disclose or Delay: Timing the Adoption of SFAS No. 106 (with A Ziv), Journal of Accounting Research (1997); Value-Relevance of Nonfinancial Information: The Wireless Communication Industry (with B Lev), Journal of Accounting and Economics (1996)
Professional qualifications
CPA
Research interest
Role of accounting information in capital markets, particularly in equity valuation, reliability of accounting figures, financial statement analysis, the value of auditor independence in capital markets, asset allocation of UK pension funds, analysts' contribution to equity valuation.
Other activities
Chairman of the Israel Accounting Standards Board.
Formerly
Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University; Professor, Columbia University; Chairman, Israel Accounting Standards Board.