Education

Ph.D.   (Accounting), University of Pennsylvania, December 2005

BBA    (Finance and Accounting), University of Michigan, May 1999

Academic Positions

Purdue University, Assistant Professor of Accounting, 2012-present

University of Arizona, Assistant Professor of Accounting, 2005-2012

Purdue University, Visiting Professor, Fall 2009

 Refereed Publications

 "Fundamental Analysis and Option Returns" with Monica Neamtiu and Frank Zhang. Accepted at Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance. 

 "The Effects of Ownership and Compensation Practices on Charitable Activities" (with Leslie Eldenburg and Fabio Gaertner), Contemporary Accounting Research, 32 (2015): 169-192.

 "Management Forecast Quality and Capital Investment Decisions" (with Monica Neamtiu, Nemit Shroff, and Hal White), The Accounting Review, 89 (2014): 331-365.

 "Does Investment-related Pressure Lead to Misreporting? An Analysis of Reporting following M&A transactions" (with Dan Bens and Monica Neamtiu), The Accounting Review 87 (2012): 839-865.

 "Which Institutional Investors Trade Based on Private Information about Earnings and Returns?" (with Brian Bushee), Journal of Accounting Research 45 (2007): 1-31.

Working Papers

"Financial Reporting Quality, Investment Horizon, and Institutional Investor Trading Strategies" with Brian Bushee and Shyam Sunder

•          Awaiting third round report from The Accounting Review
•          Presented at 2015 FARS Mid-year meeting

 

"The Influence of Competition and Compensation on Hospital Quality" with Leslie Eldenburg and Linda Chen

•          Revising for second round submission at Journal of Management Accounting Research
•          An earlier version was presented at 2015 AAA Annual meeting

 

"Human Capital, Goodwill, and Acquisition Performance?" with Curtis Hall, Monica Neamtiu, and MaryJane Rabier

•          Awaiting first round report from Review of Accounting Studies

  

"The Incidence, Valuation, and Management of Tax-related Reputational Costs: Evidence from the Occupy Wall Street Movement" with Dan Dhaliwal, P.J. Hoffman, and Casey Schwab

•          Awaiting first round report from Accounting, Organizations, and Society

 

"Slack and Crash Risk" with Volkan Muslu and Hyungshin Park

•          Preparing for submission
•          Presented at 2017 FARS Mid-year meeting, 2016 Accounting Conference at Temple University