2024-01-30

2023 Retrospective.

Papers:

Published:

• “Pay for Prudence” at the Journal of Accounting and Economics.

Submitted:

• “Individual Mortgage Lending, Public Corruption, Race and Gender: Evidence from Local Corruption Crack-Downs” to The Accounting Review.
• Renegotiation Costs and Debt Contract Design to The Accounting Review.
• RGC proposal, it’s unclear to me how much I’m allowed to say about these while they are under consideration.

Drafted:

• “Regulatory Exposure, Debt Contract Terms, and Bank Specialization” (slides).

Presentations:

• AAA: Three discussions.
• FARS: Two discussions.
• The Ohio State University (“Renegotiation Costs and Debt Contract Design” presented by Co-author, Scott Dyreng)
• Hong Kong Baptist University (“Regulatory Exposure, Debt Contract Terms, and Bank Specialization”)
• The South-West University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu (“Regulatory Exposure, Debt Contract Terms, and Bank Specialization”)

Courses:

• ACCT 3210: Developed all new materials for the Advanced Managerial Accounting course.

Briefly Noted:

• Since we have a ‘winter’ semester that is just the month of January, it feels most natural to think of my ‘year’ as ending at the end—rather than the beginning—of January.
• The revision that we completed for the Accounting Review was the most extensive review that I’ve ever completed. It took a substantial amount of time. This was my first time working with two referees (RAST and JAE are my only other experiences), and it’s quite a bit more effort to address two sets of feedback. In this case, the comments were all very good, we learned a lot, and the new paper is much improved.

Looking forward:

In 2024 I have a number of projects that I hope to have drafts of by the end of 2024. I’m listing them here by their mnemonics for my reference:

• LMZ
• MSX
• DMME
• HM
• M

These are all at various stages, but I would like to have them in the review process by the end of the year. As well as two/three exciting new projects that I’d like to see develop. I also have several tools that I’ve developed for my own use, which might be of use to others so if I have the time I’d like to publish them.