20th London Business School Accounting Symposium

Accepted Papers & Discussants

1. “Financial Statements Not Required” Mike Minnis (Chicago), Andrew Sutherland (MIT) and Felix Vetter* (Mannheim)

Discussant: Maria Loumioti (UT Dallas)

2. “How does Open Innovation Create Private Value for Firms? Evidence from GitHub” Braiden Coleman (Georgia), Karson Fronk (Georgia) and Kristen Valentine* (Georgia)

Discussant: Ane Tamayo (LSE)

3. “Venture Labor: A Nonfinancial Signal for Start-up Success” Sean Cao* (Maryland), Jie (Jack) He (Georgia), Zhilu Lin (Clarkson) and Xiao (Shaun) Ren (CUHK)

Discussant: John Barrios (WUSTL)

4. “Does the Tax System Favour Superstar Firms?” John Gallemore* (UNC) and Ed Maydew (UNC)

Discussant: Marcel Olbert (LBS)

5. “Laying Low: Peer Firms’ Strategic Nondisclosure During Merger Antitrust Review” Farzana Afrin* (California State Fullerton), Natalie Berfeld (Boston College), Mark Piorkowski (Indiana) and Ben Yost (Boston College)

Discussant: Clare Wang (Colorado)

6. “Managing the Media: Corporate Media Relations Officers and the Evolving Media Landscape” Rachel Flam* (LBS), Emily Shafron (TAMU), Nate Sharp (TAMU), and Brady Twedt (Oregon)

Discussant: Nick Guest (Cornell)

The Symposium brings together leading accounting scholars in an informal setting to discuss a small number of high-quality research papers.

You can view the schedule here