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Mary Ellen Carter

Professor and Joseph L. Sweeney Chair

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Mary Ellen Carter

Contact

Fulton Hall 538

Telephone: 617-552-2144

Email: maryellen.carter.1@bc.edu

Education

  • BS, Babson College
  • MBA, 艾可直播 College
  • Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests

Financial Accounting; Executive Compensation; and Corporate Governance

Expertise

  • Financial and Managerial Accounting
Curriculum Vitae

Department

Accounting

Profile

Professor Mary Ellen Carter studies the effects of financial reporting and regulation on incentives and executive compensation. Recent research includes gender pay gaps, labor market pressures on compensation and the influence of compensation consultants on CEO pay. She has published in Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics.听In addition, she has been featured in听Forbes, the听Financial Times, and The听New York Times, as well听as other business media. She is currently an editor at听The Accounting Review听and associate editor at听Management Science.

Before joining the Carroll School, she was a 艾可直播member at the Wharton School and the Columbia Business School. She teaches intermediate accounting to undergraduates.

Selected Publications

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  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Melissa Martin and Luann Lynch.) Management Science, 68 (8). August, 2022.

  • (With Jen Choi and Karen Sedatole.) Journal of Accounting and Economics, 71 (2-3). April-May 2021.

  • (With Brian Cadman and Xiaoxia Peng.) The Accounting Review, 96 (1), 67-89. January 2021.听

  • (With Francesca Franco and Irem Tuna.) The Accounting Review, 94 (6), 109-136. November, 2019

  • (With Francesca Franco and Mireia Gine.) Contemporary Accounting Research, 34 (2), 1232-1264. November, 2016.听

  • (With Brian Bushee and Joseph Gerakos.) Journal of Management Accounting Research, 26 (2), 123-149. 2014.听

  • (With Brian Cadman.) Journal of Management Accounting Research, 26 (1), 57-82. April, 2014

  • (With Brian Cadman and Stephen Hillegeist.) Journal of Accounting and Economics, 49 (3), 263-280. April, 2010.听

  • (With Christopher Ittner and Sarah Zechman.) Review of Accounting Studies, 14 (2-3), 260-306. February, 2009.听

  • (With Luann Lynch and Irem Tuna.) The Accounting Review, 82 (2), 327-357. March, 2007.

Selected Appointments, Awards, and Grants

  • Ernst & Young Faculty Fellow, 2021-2022
  • Coughlin Distinguished Teaching Award, 2019
  • Best Paper at the Review of Accounting Studies Conference, 2008
  • 8th Annual Glenn McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics, 2006

Editorial Positions

  • Editor,听The Accounting Review听(2023-present)
  • Editor,听Journal of Management Accounting Research听(2019-2023)
  • Associate Editor, Management Science (2021-present)听
  • Associate Editor, European Accounting Review (2016-2019)听
  • Ad-hoc Editor, Contemporary Accounting Research (2020, 2021)

Professional Activities

Before joining the 艾可直播at 艾可直播 College, Professor Carter was an Assistant Professor at the Columbia Business School of Columbia University and at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a CPA and, prior to her academic career, worked for Coopers and Lybrand in 艾可直播 as a senior audit associate.

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