IIMB Accounting Research Conference 2019

1st IIM Bangalore Accounting Research Conference

Venue: Classroom N-001, IIM Bangalore Campus

DAY 1: Friday, 26th July 2019

TimeActivity
8:00 am Breakfast – Peach Dining Hall, MDC
9:15 am Welcome Note by Prof. Gopal Naik, Dean (Faculty)
SESSION 1
9:30 am Keynote Address by Prof. Richard Sloan (USC) - 'Explaining the Profitability Anomaly'
10:30 am Should I Stay or Should I Grow? Using Voluntary Disclosure to Elicit Market Feedback
Sudarshan Jayaraman (Rochester)* and Joanna Shuang Wu (Rochester)
Discussant: Sanjeev Bhojraj (Cornell)
11:30 am Tea & Refreshments
12:00 noon How Do Accounting Practices Spread? An Examination of Law Firm Networks and Stock Option Backdating
Patricia Dechow (USC)* and Samuel Tan (SMU)
Discussant: Srini Sankaraguruswamy (NUS)
1:00 pm Lunch – Peach Dining Hall, MDC
SESSION 2
2:30 pm Aggregate Accruals and Market Returns : The Role of Aggregate M & A Activity
John Heater (Duke), Suresh Nallareddy (Duke)* and Mohan Venkatachalam (Duke)
Discussant: Hariom Manchiraju (ISB)
3:30 pm ETFs and Information Transfer Across Firms
Sanjeev Bhojraj (Cornell), Partha Mohanram (Toronto)* and Suning Zhang (Iowa State)
Discussant: Abhinav Anand (IIMB)
4:30 pm Tea & Refreshments
5:00 pm Regulators' Disclosure Decisions: Evidence from Bank Enforcement Actions
Anya Kleymenova (Chicago) and Rimmy E. Tomy (Chicago)*
Discussant: Urooj Khan (Columbia)
7:00 pm Conference Dinner
Time Activity
8:00 am Breakfast – Peach Dining Hall, MDC
9:15 am Welcome Note by Prof. Gopal Naik, Dean (Faculty)
SESSION 1
9:30 am Keynote Address by Prof. Richard Sloan (USC) - 'Explaining the Profitability Anomaly'
10:30 am Should I Stay or Should I Grow? Using Voluntary Disclosure to Elicit Market Feedback Sudarshan Jayaraman (Rochester)* and Joanna Shuang Wu (Rochester) 
Discussant: Sanjeev Bhojraj (Cornell)
11:30 am Tea & Refreshments
12:00 noon How Do Accounting Practices Spread? An Examination of Law Firm Networks and Stock Option Backdating
Patricia Dechow (USC)* and Samuel Tan (SMU)
Discussant: Srini Sankaraguruswamy (NUS)
1:00 pm Lunch – Peach Dining Hall, MDC
SESSION 2
2:30 pm Aggregate Accruals and Market Returns : The Role of Aggregate M & A Activity
John Heater (Duke), Suresh Nallareddy (Duke)* and Mohan Venkatachalam (Duke)
Discussant: Hariom Manchiraju (ISB)
3:30 pm ETFs and Information Transfer Across Firms
Sanjeev Bhojraj (Cornell), Partha Mohanram (Toronto)* and Suning Zhang (Iowa State)
Discussant: Abhinav Anand (IIMB)
4:30 pm Tea & Refreshments
5:00 pm Regulators' Disclosure Decisions: Evidence from Bank Enforcement Actions
Anya Kleymenova (Chicago) and Rimmy Tommy (Chicago)*
Discussant: Urooj Khan (Columbia)
7:00 pm Conference Dinner

DAY 2: Saturday, 27th July 2019

Venue: Classroom N-001, IIM Bangalore Campus

TimeActivity
8:00 am Breakfast – Peach Dining Hall
SESSION 3
9:30 am Measuring Corporate Weather Exposure using Computational Linguistics
Venky Nagar (Michigan)* and Jordan Schoenfeld (Dartmouth)
Discussant: Vidhya Soundararajan (IIMB)
10:30 am Corporate Insiders and Investment Horizon
Alok Nemani (Bentley), Shyam Sunder (Arizona)* and Sunil Teluja (Arizona)
Discussant: Debarati Basu (IIMB)
11:30 am Tea & Refreshments
12:00 noon

Financial Reporting Standards and Investment Efficiency in Growth Firms
Radhika Lunawat (Irvine)* and Jeroen Suijs (Erasmus)
Discussant: Shashidhar Murthy (IIMB)

1:00 pm Lunch – MDC Lawns
*Presenting Author
TimeActivity 
8:00 am Breakfast – Peach Dining Hall
SESSION 3
9:30 am Measuring Corporate Weather Exposure using Computational Linguistics
Venky Nagar (Michigan)* and Jordan Schoenfeld (Dartmouth)
Discussant: Vidhya Soundararajan (IIMB)
10:30 am Corporate Insiders and Investment Horizon
Alok Nemani (Bentley), Shyam Sunder (Arizona)* and Sunil Teluja (Arizona)
Discussant: Debarati Basu (IIMB)
11:30 am Tea & Refreshments
12:00 noon Financial Reporting Standards and Investment Efficiency in Growth Firms
Radhika Lunawat (Irvine)* and Jeroen Suijs (Erasmus)
Discussant: Shashidhar Murthy (IIMB)
1:00 pm Lunch – MDC Lawns
*Presenting Author

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