Conference Presenters
The accounting and research scholarship undertaken by Texas Ph.D. graduates is wide and varied. This diversity is well represented by our conference speakers: Richard Sansing (Tax – Analytic), Pat Hopkins (Financial – Behavioral), Margaret Christ (Managerial – Experimental) and Bill Mayew (Financial – Empirical). We hope you can join us on campus for an interesting conference!
Richard Sansing
Dartmouth College
Graduation year:
1990
Dissertation title:
"Strategic Auditing and Strategic information Transmission in Reputation Games"
Dissertation chair:
Paul Newman
Research presented at the conference:
Corporate Tax Preferences: Identification and Accounting Measurement
Fondest memory of the Ph.D. program
Pat Hopkins
Indiana University
Graduation year:
1995
Dissertation title:
"The Effect of Financial Statement Classification of Mandatorily Redeemable Preferred Stock on Financial Analysts' Stock Price Judgements: An Experimental Analysis"
Dissertation chair:
Eric Hirst
Research presented at the conference:
Agency Problems, Accounting Slack and Banks’ Response to Proposed Reporting of Loan Fair Values
Margaret Christ
University of Georgia
Graduation year:
2008
Dissertation title:
"Intending to control: An experimental investigation of the interactions among intentions, reciprocity and control"
Dissertation chair:
Steve Kachelmeier
Research presented at the conference:
Using Internal Controls and Incentive Compensation to Motivate Employees in a Multidimensional Task
Bill Mayew
Duke University
Graduation year:
2006
Dissertation title:
"The causes and Consequences of Managerial Discrimination Among Analysts During Earnings Conference Calls"
Dissertation chair:
Ross Jennings
Research presented at the conference:
Voice Pitch Predicts Labor Market Success among Male Chief Executive Officers
Supplementary material for the interested reader
Fondest memory of the Ph.D. program