Frontier Research in Financial Reporting and Corporate Governance

HBSDOC 4916 Subject & Catalog Number

Description

The course is designed for Ph.D. students in accounting and related fields interested in frontier research about financial reporting, capital markets, and corporate governance. Its primary objective is to survey contemporary research topics that energize the academic field, policy debates, or the current research activities of the Accounting and Management unit faculty. Upon completion of the course, students will be exposed to a wide range of issues at the frontier of financial accounting and corporate governance research, which will serve as a basis for developing dissertation ideas.

The course is intended for students with exposure to the academic accounting literature with a grasp of statistical inference. Knowledge of statistics and econometrics equivalent to the first year Ph.D. courses is presumed. A prerequisite for the course is the introductory doctoral seminar on financial accounting (or equivalent).