Neil Bhattacharya Ph.D.

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Education
Ph.D., 1998, University of Georgia
M.B.A., 1994, University of Georgia
B.Sc., 1986, University of Calcutta, India

Areas of Expertise
Empirical trading volume
Empirical market microstructure
Accounting disclosures

Courses Taught
Introductory Financial Accounting
Intermediate Financial Accounting
Doctoral seminar on Empirical Capital Markets research in financial accounting

• “Who Trades on Pro Forma Earnings Information” with Erv Black, Ted Christensen and Rick Mergenthaler, The Accounting Review, May 2007.

• “Systematic Share Price Fluctuations after Bankruptcy Filings and the Investors Who Drive Them” with Linda Bamber and Mark Dawkins, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, June 2007.

• “Pro Forma Disclosure and Investor Sophistication: External Validation of Experimental Evidence Using Archival Data” with Erv Black, Ted Christensen and Kris Allee, Accounting Organizations and Society, Vol. 32, 2007.

• “Does the Market Listen to Whispers” with Aamer Sheikh and Ramu Thiagarajan, Journal of Investing, Spring 2006.   

• “Empirical Evidence on Recent Trends in Pro Forma Reporting” with Erv Black, Ted Christensen and Rick Mergenthaler, Accounting Horizons, March 2004.
  
  
• “Assessing the Relative Informativeness and Permanence of Pro Forma Earnings and GAAP Operating Earnings” with Erv Black, Ted Christensen and Chad Larson, Journal of Accounting and Economics, December 2003. 
  *  Accepted for the 2002 Journal of Accounting and Economics    Conference.    

• “Investors’ Trade Size and Trading Responses Around Earnings Announcements: An Empirical Investigation,” The Accounting Review, April 2001.
  *  Winner of the 2000 American Accounting Association Competitive Manuscript Award.
  

Working Papers 

• “Earnings Quality and Information Asymmetry: Evidence from Trading Costs” with Hemang Desai and Kumar Venkataraman, being revised for resubmission to the Journal of Accounting and Economics.
   
• “The Role of Accounting Information in Stock Market Bubbles” with Elizabeth Demers and Philip Joos, under review at the Accounting Organizations and Society.
  
  
• “Direct and Mediated Associations among Earnings Quality, Information Asymmetry and the Cost of Equity” with Frank Ecker, Per Olsson and Katherine Schipper.   

• “Does Reconciliation Matter: The Impact of Mandatory Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Corporate Disclosure on Investors’ Price and Trading Responses” with Erv Black, Ted Christensen and Kris Allee.
  

Professional Services and Affiliations

• Ad hoc reviewer for The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, Journal of Economics and Finance.
  
• Ad hoc reviewer for the Financial Accounting and Reporting (FAR) section of the American Accounting Association Annual Meetings in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.
  
• Dissertation Committees at the University of Utah
  
  
  • Keith Jakob (Finance Ph.D. student, degree conferred in 2000)
    
  • Jaclyn Armabridge (Finance Ph.D. student, degree conferred in 2001)
    
  • Steve Johnson (Finance Ph.D. student, degree conferred in 2002)
    
  • Rajeev Singhal (Finance Ph.D. student, degree conferred in 2003)
  
  
• Member, American Accounting Association.
  
• Member, American Finance Association.

Grants, Honors and Awards

• SMU Cox Research Excellence Award, 2008
• Leo F. Corrigan Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, 2008
• 2000 American Accounting Association Competitive Manuscript Award recipient
• Presenter, 2002 Journal of Accounting and Economics conference
• Invited Presenter, 2003 Batten Young Scholars Program at the College of William and Mary
• Fellow, American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium, Lake Tahoe, NV, 1997
• Invited participant, First FASB Ph.D. Student Program, Norwalk, CT, 1997
• Who’s Who Among Students In American Colleges And Universities, 1992
• J.M. Tull School of Accounting Scholarship, 1994-1997
• E.T. Comer Scholarship Award, 1994-1996

Invited Academic Presentations

• University of Alberta
• Arizona State University
• Duke University
• Emory University
• University of Georgia
• London Business School
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Mellon Capital Management
• University of Michigan
• University of Minnesota
• Penn State University
• Southern Methodist University
• Texas Christian University
• University of Utah
• University of Washington
• College of William and Mary
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Mellon Capital Management
• University of Michigan
• University of Minnesota
• Penn State University
• Southern Methodist University
• Texas Christian University
• University of Utah
• University of Washington
• College of William and Mary
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Mellon Capital Management
• University of Michigan
• University of Minnesota
• Penn State University
• Southern Methodist University
• Texas Christian University
• University of Utah
• University of Washington
• College of William and Mary