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Susan Shu

Professor

Kathleen Fruin Corbet Faculty Fellow

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Susan Shu

Contact

Fulton Hall 560A

Email: susan.shu.1@bc.edu

Education

  • BS, University of Dubuque
  • MS, University of Rochester
  • Ph.D, University of Rochester

Research Interests

Corporate Disclosure; Media; Social Media; Security Litigation; Enforcement; Insider Trading; Auditor-Client Alignment; and Cost of Capital.

Expertise

  • Valuation, Asset Pricing, and Financial Statement Analysis
  • Capital Markets
  • Disclosure

Department

Accounting

Profile

Professor Susan Shu earned her B.A. from the University of Dubuque and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. She is the Director of the Ph.D. program in accounting. Her research interests include corporate disclosure, media, social media, security litigation under U.S. securities laws, enforcement, insider trading, and economics of auditor-client alignments. Her research has appeared inleading academic journals such as the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and The Accounting Review. In 2014, Professor Shu received the prestigious Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association for her (coauthored) paper 鈥淒o Managers Withhold Bad News?鈥�

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Winner of听Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Award听for 鈥淒o managers withhold bad news?鈥� 2014.
  • E.听Yetton听Prize听of Best Paper Award听for 鈥淧roperties of implied cost of capital using analysts鈥� forecasts鈥� Australian Journal of Management 2011.
  • Ernst & Young Research听Fellowship,听2015-2017
  • Katheleen Fruin Corbet Fellowship, 2024-

PUBLICATIONS

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  • 鈥淢edia exposure and corporate labor investment decisions." (With Vishal Baloria and Alvis Lo).听听The Accounting Review, forthcoming.

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Meng Li and Stan Markov.) The Accounting Review, 98 (5), 429-454. September, 2023.听

  • 鈥�?鈥� (With Ben Yost.) Journal of Accounting and Economics, 74 (1), 101512. August, 2022.听

  • 鈥溾�� (With Amy Hutton and Xin Zheng). Journal of Financial Economics, 145 (1), 297-321. July, 2022.听

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Weishi Jia, Giulia Redigolo and Jingran Zhao.) Journal of Accounting and Economics, 70 (1), 101334. August, 2020.听

  • 鈥溾�� (With Lian Fen Lee and Michelle Lowry.) Journal of Corporate Finance, 4, 460-473. February, 2018.听

  • 鈥溾�澨� (With Amy Hutton and Lian Fen Lee.) Journal of Accounting Research, 53 (2), 367-404. May, 2015.
  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Billy Soo, Greg Trompeter and Darryl Brown.) Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 32 (4), 321-24. November, 2013.听

  • 鈥溾�� (With Amy Hutton and Lian Fen Lee.) Journal of Accounting Research, 50 (5), 1217鈥�1244. December, 2012.听

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Wayne Guay and S. P. Kothari.) Australian Journal of Management, 36 (2), 125-149. August, 2011.听

  • 鈥�?鈥� (With S. P. Kothari and Peter Wysocki.) Journal of Accounting Research, 47 (1), 475-679. March, 2009.听

  • 鈥�?鈥� (With Michelle Lowry and Laura Field.) Journal of Accounting and Economics, 39 (3), 487-507. September, 2005.听

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Michelle Lowry.) Journal of Financial Economics,听65 (3), 309-335. September, 2002.听

  • 鈥溾�� Journal of Accounting and Economics, 29 (2), 173-205. April, 2000.
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