ISB Accounting Research Conference
Hyderabad, December 16-18, 2008
Programme
December 16, 2008
7.30 pm -
Reception
Recreation Centre
Lawns
7.30 am – 9 am
Breakfast
Bajaj Dining Hall
9.25 – 9.30 am
Welcome address – Sanjay Kallapur
Hindustan Lever
AC7LT
9.30 am – 10.45 am
Ole-Kristian Hope, Wayne Thomas, Dushyantkumar Vyas.
"The Cost of Pride: Why Do Firms from Developing
Countries Bid Higher?”
Hindustan Lever
AC7LT
December 17, 2008
Presenter: Ole-Kristian Hope, University of Toronto
Discussant: Sanjay Kallapur, ISB
10.45 am – 11.15 am
Coffee break
11.15 am – 12.30 pm
Joseph D Piotroski, T J Wong, Tianyu Zhang. "Political
Incentives to Suppress Negative Financial Information:
Evidence from State-controlled Chinese Firms’’
Hindustan Lever
AC7LT
Presenter: T J Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Nandu Nagarjan
12.30 pm – 2.15 pm
Lunch
Bajaj Dining Hall
2.15 pm – 3.30 pm
Volkan Muslu, Suresh Radhakrishnan, K R Subramanyam,
Dongkuk Lim. "Causes and Consequences of Forward
Looking Disclosures in the Management Discussion and
Analysis (MD&A) Section: An Exploratory Study"
Hindustan Lever
AC7LT
Presenter: K R Subramanyam, University of Southern
California
Discussant: Sanjeev Bhojraj, Cornell University.
3.30 pm – 4 pm
Coffee break
4 pm – 6 pm
Panel Discussion on IFRS and India
Panelists: Jamil Khatri, Head, US GAAP and IFRS Services,
KPMG in India; Sai Venkateshwaran, Head, IFRS Practice,
Walker and Chandiok Grant Thornton; Umang Vohra,
Deputy CFO, Dr. Reddy’s Labs
Hindustan Lever
AC7LT
Moderator: Sri Sridharan (Kellogg)
7.30 pm -
Dinner
Recreation Centre
Lawns
7.30 am – 9.30 am
Breakfast
Bajaj Dining Hall
9.30 am – 10.45 am
Dan Gode, Partha Mohanram. “Improving the
Relationship between Implied Cost of Capital and Realized
Returns by Removing Predictable Analyst Forecast Errors”
Hindustan Lever
AC7LT
December 18, 2007
Presenter: Partha Mohanram, Columbia University
Discussant: Sanjay Kallapur, ISB
10.45 am – 11.15 am
Coffee break
11.15 am – 12.30 pm
Neil Bhattacharya, Hemang Desai, and Kumar
Venkataraman. “Earnings Quality and Information
Asymmetry: Evidence from Trading Costs.’’
Hindustan Lever
AC7LT
Presenter: Neil Bhattacharya, Southern Methodist
University
Discussant: Srini Sankaraguruswamy, National University
of Singapore.
12.30 pm – 2.15 pm
Lunch
Bajaj Dining Hall
Programme Committee: 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).