John D. Kepler

Associate Professor of Accounting, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business

John D. Kepler is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research studies the interrelated role that firms’ explicit and implicit contracts play in shaping firms’ financial reporting and corporate governance practices. His recent work examines how companies use financial disclosures to strategically circumvent competition regulations and how disclosure regulations in the healthcare sector drive competitive behavior among firms.