Event Highlights
Welcome Remarks
Christopher Geczy, Academic Director, Jacobs Levy Center, The Wharton School
Geoffrey Garrett, Dean, The Wharton School
Bruce Jacobs, Principal and Co-Founder, Jacobs Levy Equity Management; Chair of the Advisory Board, Jacobs Levy Center
Anomaly Time
Presenter:
Matthew Ringgenberg, Associate Professor of Finance, University of Utah
Discussant:
Patricia Dechow, Robert R. Dockson Professor of Business Administration, USC Marshall School of Business
Accounting for the Anomaly Zoo: A Trading Cost Perspective
Presenter:
Andrew Chen, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Board
Discussant:
Ingrid Tierens, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
Presentation of the 2018 Jacobs Levy Center Research Paper Prizes
Officiants:
Christopher Geczy, Academic Director, Jacobs Levy Center, The Wharton School
Bruce Jacobs, Principal and Co-Founder, Jacobs Levy Equity Management
Ken Levy, Principal and Co-Founder, Jacobs Levy Equity Management
Panel Discussion
Accounting Informativeness: 50 Years Since Ball and Brown
Panelists:
S.P. Kothari, Chief Economist and Director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
David Zion, Research Analyst, Zion Research Group
Moderator:
Catherine Schrand, Celia Z. Moh Professor, The Wharton School
A Production-based Economic Explanation for the Gross Profitability Premium
Presenter:
Leonid Kogan, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
Discussant:
Jessica Wachter, Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management, The Wharton School
Presentation of the 2019 Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation to Ray Ball and Philip Brown
Officiants:
Christopher Geczy, Academic Director, Jacobs Levy Center, The Wharton School
Bruce Jacobs, Principal and Co-Founder, Jacobs Levy Equity Management
Ken Levy, Principal and Co-Founder, Jacobs Levy Equity Management
Special Presentation:
Ray Ball, Sidney Davidson Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Philip Brown, Senior Honorary Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor, University of Western Australia