Rodrigo S. Verdi Sarofim Family Career Development Professor of Management Associate Professor of Accounting Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology 100 Main street E62-666 Cambridge, MA 02142 Office: (617) 253-2956 E-Mail: rverdi@mit.edu

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   The Information Environment and the Investment Decisions of Multinational Corporations
  with Nemit Shroff and Gwen Yu.

   Information Asymmetry and Financing Decisions around the World
  with Patricia Naranjo and Daniel Saavedra.

    Publications

    Peer Choice in CEO Compensation
    with Ana Albuquerque and Gus DeFranco.
    Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming.
      - Analysis dataset: Stata Dataset.
      - Stata program: Stata DO file.

   Management Forecast Credibility and Underreaction to News
  with Jeffrey Ng and Irem Tuna.
  Review of Accounting Studies, forthcoming.

    Adopting a Label: Heterogeneity in the Economic Consequences around IAS/IFRS Adoptions
    with Holger Daske, Luzi Hail, and Christian Leuz.
    Journal of Accounting Research 51 (3), (2013) 495-547.
     - Hand-collected dataset on voluntary IAS/USGAAP adopters.

   Discussion of “Financial Reporting Frequency, Information Asymmetry, and the Cost of Equity”
  Journal of Accounting and Economics 54 (2-3), (2012) 150-153.

   Investor Competition over Information and the Pricing of Information Asymmetry
  with Brian Akins and Jeffrey Ng.
  The Accounting Review 87 (1), (2012) 35-58.
     - Email me for the measures of investor competition developed in this paper.

   The Benefits of Financial Statement Comparability
  with Gus DeFranco and S.P. Kothari.
  Journal of Accounting Research 49 (4), (2011) 895-931.
      - SAS program: SAS program, LST file.
      - Comparability datasets: Firm-pair-year dataset (98Mb zipped), Firm-year dataset (4Mb).

   How does Financial Reporting Quality Relate to Investment Efficiency?
  with Gary Biddle and Gilles Hilary.
  Journal of Accounting and Economics 48 (2-3), (2009) 112-131.

   Mandatory IFRS Reporting Around the World: Early Evidence on the Economic Consequences
  with Holger Daske, Luzi Hail, and Christian Leuz.
  Journal of Accounting Research 46 (5), (2008) 1085-1142.

   Is Accruals Quality a Priced Risk Factor?
  with John Core and Wayne Guay.
  Journal of Accounting and Economics 46 (1), (2008) 2-22.

   Implications of Transaction Costs for Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift
  with Jeffrey Ng and Tjomme Rusticus.
  Journal of Accounting Research 46 (3), (2008) 661-696.

   Agency problems of excess endowment holdings in not-for-profit firms
  with John Core and Wayne Guay.
  Journal of Accounting and Economics 41 (3), (2006) 307-333.

   Stock market anomalies: What can we learn from repurchases and insider trading?
  with John Core, Wayne Guay, and Scott Richardson.
  Review of Accounting Studies 11 (1), (2006) 49-70.

   Older Papers

   Financial Reporting Quality and Investment Efficiency

   Information Environment and the Cost of Equity Capital