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Alastair Lawrence

Alastair Lawrence

Assistant Professor
Haas Accounting Group
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Academic Status: On duty
Personal Homepage: http://www.alastairlawrence.net/
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

BA, Accounting, University of Waterloo
M.Acc, University of Waterloo
PhD, Management (Accounting), Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto


Positions Held

 

At Haas since 2011

2011 - present, Assistant Professor, Haas Accounting Group, Haas School of Business


Selected Papers and Publications

  • “Can Big 4 versus Non-Big 4 Differences in Audit-Quality Proxies Be Attributed To Client Characteristics?” (co-authored with Miguel Minutti-Meza and Ping Zhang) The Accounting Review, 86 (2011).
  • “Individual Investors and Financial Disclosure” (2013). Forthcoming Journal of Accounting & Economics.
  • Discussion of “Implications of the integral approach and earnings management for alternative annual reporting periods” (2013). Forthcoming Review of Accounting Studies.
  • “Mandatorily Conservative Accounting: Evidence and Implications” (co-authored with Richard Sloan and Yuan Sun) (2013). Presented at 2012 Journal of Accounting & Economics Conference. Working paper.
  • “Investors’ Demand for Sell-Side Research: SEC Filings, Media Coverage, and Market Factors” (co-authored with James Ryans and Yuan Sun) (2013). Working paper.
  • “Managers’ Cost of Equity Capital Estimates: Empirical Evidence” (co-authored with Stephannie Larocque and Kevin Veenstra) (2013). Working paper.
  • “Operational Control Risk: Implications for Audit Practice” (co-authored with Miguel Minutti-Meza and Dushyantkumar Vyas) (2013). Working paper.
  • “Who’s the Fairest of Them All? Evidence from Closed-End Funds” (co-authored with Richard Sloan and Jackie Siriviriyakul) (2013). Working paper.

Teaching

  • MBA 223 and EWMBA 223—Corporate Financial Reporting



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