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Thomas
Z. Lys
Eric L. Kohler Chair in Accounting
Professor of Accounting Information and Management,
Professor of Law (courtesy appointment) Northwestern
School of Law
Accounting Information and Management
Ph.D
Graduate School of Management, University of Rochester,
1982 (Accounting and Finance),
lic.rer.pol. University of Bern, Switzerland,
1976 (Economics & Operations Research, summa
cum laude)
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| Academic
Positions Held |
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Kellogg
School of Management, Northwestern University
Eric L. Kohler Chair in Accounting and Professor of
Accounting Information and Management
Gary A. Rosenberg Distinguished Associate Professor
of Real Estate Management and Professor of Accounting
Information and Management, and Director, Guthrie Center
for Real Estate Research (1997-1999),
John L. and Helen Kellogg Distinguished Associate Professor
of Accounting Information and Management (1995-1997),
Associate Professor of Accounting Information and Management
(1989-95),
Assistant Professor of Accounting Information and Management
(1982-89).
Northwestern
School of Law, Northwestern University
Professor of Law (courtesy appointment) (2000- )
Graduate
School of Business, Stanford University
Visiting Associate Professor of Accounting (1997)
Graduate
School of Business, University of Chicago
Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting (1986-1987). |
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| Courses
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MBA
Level: Financial Accounting; Security Price Analysis;
Financial Statement Analysis; Mergers and
Acquisitions; Executive MBA Level: Financial Accounting;
Security Price Analysis; Mergers and Acquisitions.
Lecture capabilities in English, French, German and Polish.
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| Career
and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards |
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Outstanding
Professor award for Electives - EMP 46, 1999-2000
Outstanding Professor Award 1998-2000
Sidney J. Levy Teacher Award 1998-1999 and 2001-2002.
Sidney
J. Levy Teaching Award, Master of Management Program
Outstanding Professor Award, Executive Masters’
Program (1998, 1997,1996)
Peat Marwick and Mitchell Research Grant (1987), Beatrice
Foods Research Chair (1984-85),
Ernst & Whinney Research Fellow (1983-84), Beta
Gamma Sigma. |
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| Professional
Leadership |
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Editor, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2000-Present
Associate Editor, Journal of Accounting and Economics,
1988-1999, Editorial Board, The Accounting Review
(1986-89),
Selection Committee, State Farm Companies Foundation Business
Doctoral Dissertation Awards (1996-present). |
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| Research
Areas |
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Analyst
earnings forecasts and stock valuations; Efficiency of
analysts' earnings forecasts; Implications of tax laws
for the optimal structure of two-tier merger offers; The
stock price behavior following earnings announcements;
Properties of estimators of auto-correlation coefficients.
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| Current
Projects |
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Determinants
and implications of the serial-correlation in analysts'
earnings forecast errors (with John Jacob). Auto-correlation
tests with short time-series: inference problems and proposed
solutions (with Jowell S. Sabino and John Jacob).
Tests
of model selection: recognition and aggregation of information
in earnings: an evaluation of alternative research approaches
(with Patricia Dechow and Jowell Sabino).
Is
managers' private information evident in corporate financing
choices? An examination of security issuances in the
banking industry (with Marguerite Bishop).
Optimal
structure of tender offers (with Thomas Fields).
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| Representative
Publications |
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A
Note on Analysts’ Earnings Forecast Errors Distribution
2004, (with Daniel A. Cohen), Journal of Accounting
and Economics, Volume 36 (1-3)
The internet downturn: finding valuation
factors in spring 2000, (with Elizabeth K. Keating and
Robert P. Magee), Journal of Accounting and Economics,
Volume 34 (1-3) (January 203) 189-236.
The effect of accounting information
on corporate financing choices: an examination of security
issuances in the banking industry (with Marguerite Bishop),
Contemporary Accounting Review 18 (3) (Fall 2001)
397-423.
Empirical research on accounting choices
(with Thomas Fields and Linda Vincent), Journal of
Accounting and Economics 31 (1-3) (September 2001)
pp. 255-307.
The Ohlson model, contribution to valuation
theory, limitations, and empirical applications (with
Kin Lo), Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance,
(Summer 2000), (forthcoming).
Auto-correlation structure of forecast
errors from time-series models: Implications for post-earnings
announcement drift studies (jointly with John Jacob
and Jowell Sabino), Journal of Accounting and Economics
(forthcoming).
Use of R2 in accounting research: measuring
changes in value relevance over the last four decades
(with Stephen Brown and Kin Lo), Journal of Accounting
and Economics 28 (2) (December 1999), 83-115.
Expertise in forecasting performance
of security analysts (with John Jacob and Margaret Neale),
Journal of Accounting and Economics 28 (1) (November
1999), 51_82.
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| General
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USX
Corporation
UNR Corporation
Beckman Instruments, Inc.
US Robotics
G. E. Capital
Baker & McKenzie
Cox Communication |
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