Courses a.y. 2024/2025
Biographical note
I am a Distinguished Professor at Bocconi University since 2021 and I pursued a PhD at the University of Chicago. I have been working at the Columbia Business School since 1999 and at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley before then.
About
In 2019, I was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame and in 2020 into the Australian Accounting Hall of Fame.
In 2021, I was awarded with the Innovation in Financial Accounting Education Award by the American Accounting Association.
I am a founding editor of the Review of Accounting Studies and served as managing editor from 2002-2006.
Research interests
My research deals with the valuation of equity and the role of accounting information in security analysis, and a number of my papers deal with accounting policy issues.
Selected Publications
An accounting-based asset pricing model and a fundamental factor
JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING AND ECONOMICS, 73(1-2), 2022
Connecting book rate of return to risk and return: the information conveyed by conservative accounting
REVIEW OF ACCOUNTING STUDIES, 26(1): 391-423, 2021
A theoretical analysis connecting conservative accounting to the cost of capital
JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING AND ECONOMICS, 69(1):1-25., 2020
A Matter of Principle: Accounting Reports Convey Both Cash-Flow News and Discount-Rate News
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, 65(12): 5449-5956, 2019
Moving the conceptual framework forward: accounting for uncertainty
CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTING RESEARCH, 37(1): 322–357., 2020
A Framework for Identifying Accounting Characteristics for Asset Pricing Models, with an Evaluation of Book-to-Price
EUROPEAN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, 24(4): 488-520, 2018
Accounting for Intangible Assets: Suggested Solutions.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES, 2021
Fundamentals of Value vs. Growth Investing and an Explanation for the Value Trap
COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL RESEARCH ARCHIVE, 2014
A theoretical analysis connecting conservative accounting to the cost of capital
JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING & ECONOMICS, 2020
Moving the conceptual framework forward: accounting for uncertainty
CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTING RESEARCH, 2020
An accounting-based asset pricing model and a fundamental factor
JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING & ECONOMICS, 2022
Returns to buying earnings and book value: accounting for growth and risk
REVIEW OF ACCOUNTING STUDIES, 2013
Connecting book rate of return to risk and return: the information conveyed by conservative accounting
REVIEW OF ACCOUNTING STUDIES, 2021
The implied cost of capital: accounting for growth
REVIEW OF QUANTITATIVE FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING, 2023
Accounting for Intangible Assets: Thinking It Through
AUSTRALIAN ACCOUNTING REVIEW, 2023