Accounting Research Conference
ISB Campus, Hyderabad, December 17-19, 2007
Programme
December 17, 2007
7.30 am – 10 am
Breakfast
Bajaj Dining Hall
12.30 pm - 1.30
pm
Lunch
Bajaj Dining Hall
1.45 pm
Welcome Address, ISB Dean MR Rao
Hindustan Lever
AC7LT
2 – 2.45 pm
Special address: Accounting Education and Research as
Hindustan Lever
Infrastructure for a Modernizing Economy, Shyam Sunder AC7LT
(Yale University)
2.45 pm – 3.00 pm
Break
3.00 – 4.30 pm
Panel discussion: Need and Scope for Accounting
Research in India.
Hindustan Lever
AC7LT
Moderator: Rajesh Chakrabarti (ISB)
Panelists: Usha Narayanan, Executive Director, SEBI; and
Mahesh Vyas, CEO, Centre for Monitoring the Indian
Economy (CMIE)
4.30 – 4.45 pm
Break
4.30 pm – 6 .00
pm
Panel Discussion: Asian Accounting Research: Topics,
Publication Outlets, and Incentives.
Hindustan Lever
AC7LT
Moderator: Sanjay Kallapur (ISB).
Panelists: Shyam Sunder (Yale University) and Bin
Srinidhi (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
7.30 pm -
Dinner
ISB Executive
Housing Mirror
Pool
7.30 am – 9.00 am
Breakfast
Bajaj Dining Hall
9.00 am – 11.10
pm
Session 1 (Chair: Nandu Nagarajan, University of
Pittsburgh)
Hindustan Lever
AC7LT
December 18, 2007
Don’t fight the Fed Model, Jake Thomas (Yale
University) and Frank Zhang (Yale University)
Discussant: L Shivakumar (London Business School)
Post-earnings-announcement drift, inflation and earnings
forecasts, L Shivakumar.
Discussant: Ramgopal Venkataraman (Southern
Methodist University)
12.30 pm – 2.15
pm
Lunch l
Bajaj Dining Hall
2.15 pm – 5.30 pm
Session 2 (Chair: Sunil Dutta, University of California at
Berkeley, and ISB)
Hindustan Lever
AC7LT
Do female directors enhance corporate board
monitoring? Some evidence from earnings quality,
Ferdinand A. Gul (The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University), Bin Srinidhi (The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University) and Judy Tsui (The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University)
Discussant: Sanjeev Bhojraj (Cornell University)
Decentralized Capacity Management, Sunil Dutta (UC
Berkeley and ISB) and Stefan Reichelstein (Stanford
University)
Investor myopia & CEO horizon incentives, Brian
Cadman (Northwestern University) and Jayanthi Sunder
(Northwestern University)
Discussant: Sanjeev Bhojraj (Cornell University)
7.30 pm -
Dinner
ISB Executive
Housing Mirror
Pool
7.30 am – 8.30 am
Breakfast
Bajaj Dining Hall
8.30 am – 10.30
am
Session 3 (Chair: K. Sivaramakrishnan, University of
Houston)
AC7MLT
December 19, 2007
Effect of auditing on variability of returns and trading
volume, Charles J.P. Chen (City University of Hong
Kong), Bin Srinidhi (The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University), and Xijia Su (City University of Hong Kong)
Discussant: Suraj Srinivasan (University of Chicago)
The conservatism principle and the asymmetric timeliness
of earnings, Pervin K. Shroff (University of Minnesota)
Ramgopal Venkataraman (Southern Methodist
University), and Suning Zhang (George Mason
University)
Discussant: Shyam V Sunder (Northwestern University)
10.30 -10.45 am
Break
10.45 am – 12.45
pm
Session 4 (Chair: L. Shivakumar, London Business
School)
AC7MLT
Canadian cross-listed firms in US, Audit fees and
earnings quality, Mohinder Parkash (Oakland University)
and Rajeev Singhal (Oakland University and Moody’s
Investors Services).
Discussant: Bin Srinidhi
Corporate Governance when Founders are Directors,
Feng Li (University of Michigan) and Suraj Srinivasan
(University of Chicago)
Discussant: Jayanthi Sunder (Northwestern University)
12.45 -
Lunch
Bajaj Dining Hall
Programme Committee: Rajiv Banker (Temple University), Sunil Dutta (UC Berkeley and ISB), Sanjay
Kallapur (ISB), Cathy Schrand (Wharton), L Shivakumar (London Business School), K
Sivaramakrishnan (University of Houston), and Sri Sridharan (Northwestern University).
For conference-related queries and arrangements, please contact Nalini Paruchuri at
[email protected], +91 40 2318 7196.