18th London Business School Accounting Symposium

Accepted Papers & Discussants

1. “Why Do Companies Meet with the SEC Chair?” James Naughton* (Northwestern), Rafael Rogo (Indiana) and Xin Zheng (UBC) 

Discussant: Marlene Plumlee (Utah) 

2. “Intra-quarter Commercial Paper Borrowings,” Aleksander Aleszczyk* (London Business School) 

Discussant: Rahul Vashishtha (Duke) 

3. “Regulators’ Disclosure Decisions: Evidence from Bank Enforcement Actions,” Anya Kleymenova (Chicago) and Rimmy Tomy* (Chicago) 

Discussant: Sugata Roychowdhury (Boston College) 

4. “Corporate Governance Reforms Around the World: The Impact on Firm Innovation,” Albert Tsang (York), Kun Tracy Wang* (Australian National University) and Nathan Zhenghang Zhu (Australian National University) 

Discussant: Mary Ellen Carter (Boston College) 

5. “On the Informativeness of Unexpected Exclusions from Street Earnings,” Brian Bratten (Kentucky), Stephannie Larocque* (Notre Dame) and Teri Yohn (Indiana) 

Discussant: Shuping Chen (UT Austin) 

6. “Opening the Black Box of Capital Investment: The Roles of Capital Expenditure Budget and Execution,” Gilles Hilary* (Georgetown), Mark Ma (American University) and Wenjia Yan (Hong Kong) 

Discussant: Robert Resutek (Georgia) 

7. “Machine + Man: A Randomized Field Experiment on the Role of Private Information in Lending Markets,” Anna Costello* (Michigan), Andrea Down (Michigan) and Mihir Mehta (Michigan) 

Discussant: Maria Loumioti (UT Dallas) 

*Presenting author

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