Wharton Spring Accounting Conference
May 21-22, 2025
All Sessions and Lunch/Breaks/Breakfast will be held in SHDH 351
Map of University of Pennsylvania Campus: Campus Map
Map of Conference Event Locations: Conference Locations
| Wednesday, May 21, 2025 | |
| 12:15 p.m. – 1:25 p.m. | Box Lunches |
| 1:35 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. | Conference Welcome |
| 1:40 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. | Session 1 – Tim Baldenius (Columbia Business School) “Disclosing to Multiple Input Providers” |
| 2:40 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. | Break |
| 3:10 p.m. – 4:10 p.m. | Session 2 – Jessica Kim-Gina (Chapman University) “Organizational Capital, Brand Capital, and Information Asymmetry” |
| 4:10 p.m. – 4:40 p.m. | Break |
| 4:40 p.m. – 5:40 p.m. | Session 3 – Charles Wang (Harvard Business School) “Does Share Repurchase Legalization Really Harm Corporate Investments” |
| 6:00 p.m – 9:00 p.m. | Cocktails & Dinner at Dim Sum House |
| Thursday, May 22, 2025 | |
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Session 4 – Chloe Xie (MIT) “Strategic Disclosure and Investor Loss Aversion” |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Session 5 – Sarah Zechman (University of Colorado) “Beyond dissemination: Social media as a disclosure channel for original firm information” |
| 11:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. | Break |
| 11:50 a.m. – 12:50 p.m. | Session 6 – Carolyn Deller (Wharton) “You Rate Me and I’ll Rate You: Mutual Rating Relationships in Multi-Rater Performance Evaluation Systems” |
| 12:50 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Box Lunches |