2022 Tri-Uni Accounting Research Conference

2022 Tri-Uni Accounting Research Conference

Programme

9:00am - 9:55am

Subordinates' Task Performance when the Supervisor Works from Home (solo-authored)

In Gyun Baek

Email: igbaek@nus.edu.sg
National University of Singapore (NUS)

In Gyun Baek earned his BBA and MS from Seoul National University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on how to better select and motivate employees through the design of control systems and strategic performance measurement within the organization, and align employees with organizational purposes and values. Specifically, his research interests lie in studying contingencies that arise in settings in which knowledge-intensive workers are engaged. Additionally, he is interested in how corporate governance mechanisms influence the decisions of major stakeholders, such as managers and investors. He also utilizes unstructured field data, interviews, and surveys from multiple data sources to address important theoretical and practical research questions.

9:55am - 10:00am

Break

10:00am - 10:55am

Intellectual Property Rights, Holdup, and the Incentives for Innovation Disclosures.

Stella Park

email: stellapark@smu.edu.sg
Singapore Management University (SMU)

Stella Yeayeun Park joined Singapore Management University after completing her PhD from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She received her BA in Computer Science and BA in Economics from Swarthmore College. Her research interests include financial reporting and disclosure, innovation, intellectual property, and contracting. Her teaching interests include financial accounting and data analytics.

10:55am - 11:00am

Break

11:00am - 11:55am

Bold Recommendation, Analyst Coverage, and Stock Return

Cheong Foong Soon

email: fscheong@ntu.edu.sg
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

Dr Cheong holds a PhD from Yale University, and has degrees in electrical engineering (B.Eng) and high performance computing (M.Eng) from the National University of Singapore. Prior to joining NTU Singapore, he was a full-time faculty member at New York University Shanghai, Rutgers Business School, and Singapore Management University. Dr Cheong has published in the Journal of Accounting Research (JAR), Management Science, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and he has presented at the University of Chicago’s JAR annual conference (only six papers selected each year). He was awarded a University Fellowship from Yale University (for PhD), and a scholarship from the Singapore-MIT Alliance (for Masters). As an undergraduate, he studied at Carnegie Mellon University for one year, with support from Bechtel Grant.