Call for Papers: Survey of Past Research and Directions for the Future

                   JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING & ECONOMICS

        SURVEY OF PAST RESEARCH AND DIRECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE

                Saturday-Sunday, October 3-4, 2009
                 at MIT Sloan School of Management
                     Cambridge, Massachusetts


      The 2009 Journal of Accounting & Economics Conference will
      comprise a series of survey papers on topics of
      contemporary interest to academics, regulators, and the
      profession. Each team of invited authors is expected to
      provide a critical retrospective of the research on the
      assigned topic and offer constructive suggestions for
      future directions in the area. Discussants for each survey
      paper will be announced prior to the conference date.


      TOPICS/AUTHORS:

      The topics and invited authors are:

      - Role of accounting in corporate governance and
        contracting
        - Chris Armstrong, Wayne Guay, and Joseph Weber
      - International accounting
        - Hollis Ashbaugh, Ryan LaFond, and Ross Watts
      - Corporate information environment: Management reports and
        forecasts, analyst reports, other disclosures, and
        auditing
        - Anne Beyer, Daniel Cohen, Thomas Lys, and Beverly
          Walther
      - What should GAAP in the future look like? A survey of
        past research as guidance for future standards
        - S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas Skinner
      - Accounting anomalies, fundamental analysis, and returns
        to investment strategies
        - Scott Richardson and Peter Wysocki
      - Earnings quality and earnings management
        - Patty Dechow, Weili Ge, and Catherine Schrand
      - Tax research in accounting: Real effects, earnings
        management, and governance
        - Michelle Hanlon and Shane Heitzman

      The conference is sponsored by MIT Sloan School of
      Management, CRA International, and McGraw-Hill Irwin. It
      will be held at MIT Sloan School of Management.
Posted 4/15/08