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Brian Bushee

Gilbert and Shelly Harrison Associate Professor of Accounting


Professor Bushee’s research focuses on the impact of information intermediaries—such as institutional investors, sell-side analysts, and the business press—on corporate disclosure decisions and on the stock market pricing of information. His articles have appeared in top-tier academic journals such as Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Accounting Review, as well as in practitioner journals such as Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and Investor Relations Quarterly. His dissertation won the American Accounting Association’s Competitive Manuscript Award. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Accounting Review, and Review of Accounting Studies.

Professor Bushee teaches an MBA elective titled Problems in Financial Reporting and has taught the MBA introductory financial accounting course at Wharton, Harvard, and Chicago. He also teaches in the Wharton Seminar for Business Journalists and in a number of Wharton Executive Education Programs. He has won the MBA Excellence in Teaching Award and the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award, which is awarded to the one faculty member "who has exemplified outstanding teaching quality during the last year." He has also been voted to serve as a Faculty Marshall at the MBA graduation.

Before joining Wharton in 2000, Professor Bushee was an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. He has also worked as a Senior Credit Analyst for CoreStates Financial Corp. and as a National Office Researcher for Coopers and Lybrand L.L.P. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and A.B. from Duke University.

Professor Bushee's Institutional Investor Classification Data is available here.

Publications
Brian Bushee, Gregory Miller (2012), Investor Relations, Firm Visibility, and Investor Following, The Accounting Review
Brian Bushee, Michael Jung, Gregory Miller (2011), Conference Presentations and the Disclosure Milieu, Journal of Accounting Research, 49: 1163-1192
Brian Bushee, John Core, Wayne Guay, Sophia J.W. Hamm (2010), The Role of the Business Press as an Information Intermediary, Journal of Accounting Research, 48: 1-19.
Brian Bushee, Ted Goodman (2007), Which Institutional Investors Trade on Private Information about Earnings and Returns?, Journal of Accounting Research, 45: 289-321.
Brian Bushee, Christian Leuz (2005), Economic Consequences of SEC Disclosure Regulation: Evidence from the OTC Bulletin Board, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 39: 233-264.

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Current Research
Brian Bushee, Michael Jung, Greg Miller 2011, Do Investors Benefit from Selective Access to Management?
Brian Bushee, Henry Friedman 2011, Disclosure Standards and Noise Trade
Jennifer Blouin, Brian Bushee, Stephanie Sikes 2011, Tax-sensitive Institutional Investors
Brian Bushee, Ted Goodman 2010, Institutional Investor Diversification and the Pricing of Risk
Brian Bushee, Mary Ellen Carter, Joseph Gerakos 2010, Institutional Investor Preferences for Corporate Governance Mechanisms

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In The News
Shooting the messenger: Quarterly earnings and short-term pressure to perform, Economist Intelligence Unit, 08/25/2010, Brian Bushee
Lehman's Demise and Repo 105: No accounting for deception, Economist Intelligence Unit, 03/01/2010, Brian Bushee
FDIC to Set Fate of Securitized Assets, American Banker, 11/12/2009, Brian Bushee
Revenge of the Accounting Authorities?, Mergers & Acquisitions Report, 08/17/2009, Brian Bushee
Is It U.S. GAAP or IFRS At U.S. Universities?, Financial Executive, 06/01/2009, Brian Bushee

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Knowledge@Wharton
Are 'Mark-to-market' Accounting Rules on the Mark?, 04/01/2009, Brian Bushee
Paying the Price: Satyam's Auditors Face Plenty of Questions, 01/22/2009, Brian Bushee
How Investor Relations (IR) Firms Can Boost the Market Prospects of Small Companies, 04/06/2005, Brian Bushee
Investor Relations, Firm Visibility, and Investor Following, 01/01/2005, Brian Bushee
Accounting Games Companies Play (Especially With Revenues and Costs), 07/14/2004, Brian Bushee

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Honors And Awards
University of Michigan Ross School of Business Ph.D. Distinguished Alumni Award, 2011
Faculty Marshall at MBA Graduation, 2011
Excellence in Teaching Award: Elective Curriculum (Top 10 MBA course evals), 2010
Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Teaching Award, 2009
Excellence in Teaching Award (Top 8 MBA course evals), 2009

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Bushee Brian
Brian Bushee
 1317 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6365
Phone: (215) 898-4872
Fax: (215) 573-2054
bushee@wharton.upenn.edu

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Research Interests:
Institutional investors; corporate disclosure; stock market anomalies; fundamental analysis