McCombs School of Business
Department of Accounting
Accounting : Faculty Pages

Nicholas Seybert

Assistant Professor
Department of Accounting
McCombs faculty member since 2008
nick.seybert@mccombs.utexas.edu

Shuping Chen Contact Information:
Accounting Department
CBA 4M.210/Mail Code B6400
McCombs School of Business
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-0211
(512) 471-7920
(512) 471-3904 (fax)

  • PHD, Cornell University
  • MS, Cornell University
  • BS, University of Maryland, College Park
 
Academic Posts:
University of Texas at Austin, 2008 - present

Research Areas:
Accounting-Financial,  Accounting-Managerial,  Behavioral Finance,  Judgment and Decision Making

Current Research Projects:

Working Papers

Seybert, N. and Wang, S. 2009. False prophets: How analysts lead short sellers astray during periods of high investor sentiment.

Work in Progress

R&D accounting biases and investment decisions (with Flora Zhou). Idea stage.

Do disaggregated forecasts have costs? (with Eric Hirst and Lisa Koonce). Idea stage.

MD&A and investor earnings judgments (with Lisa Koonce and James Smith). Writing stage.

Recent and Representative Publications:

Seybert, N., R&D capitalization and reputation-driven real earnings management. Accounting Review. Forthcoming.

Seybert, N., and Bloomfield, R. 2009. Contagion of wishful thinking in markets. Management Science 55(5): 738-751.

Libby, R., and Seybert, N. 2009. Behavioral studies of the effects of regulation on earnings management and accounting choice. Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions: Essays for Anthony Hopwood. Oxford University Press. 2009.

Libby, R.; Hunton, J.; Tan, H-T.; and Seybert, N. 2008. Relationship incentives and the optimistic/pessimistic pattern in analysts’ forecasts. Journal of Accounting Research 46 (1): 173-198.


Professional Awards:
 AAA/ABO Best Dissertation Award, 2009
AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2006
Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, 2006

Ad Hoc Reviewer:
Management Science, 2009
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2009
Accounting Horizons, 2009
The Accounting Review, 2008
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2008