Carnegie Mellon University

2024 Carnegie Mellon Accounting Mini-Conference

Accounting Structure and Information:
Celebrating The Centennial of
“A Historical Defense of Bookkeeping”
By Henry Rand Hatfield

Tepper School of Business
4765 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 - Google Maps


Conference Schedule

FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 2024 - TEP 2700
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Welcome Luncheon - TEP 2612
12:30 - 12:45 p.m. Opening Remarks - TEP 2700
12:45 - 1:45 p.m. Talk 1 – Carbon Bookkeeping by Stefan Reichelstein (Stanford/Mannheim) [pdf]
Discussion by Nick Muller (CMU Tepper and CIT)
1:45 - 2:15 p.m. Break - TEP 2612
2:15 - 3:30 p.m.

Talk 2 – Panel on Accounting Structure and Information: Jonathan Glover
(Moderator), Rick Antle, Stephen Penman, Shyam Sunder, and Greg Waymire

3:30 - 4 p.m. Break - TEP 2612
4 - 5 p.m. Talk 3 – Revisiting Accounting Entropy by Nan Li (Minn)
Discussion by Jeremy Bertomeu (Wash U)
5:45 p.m. Departure from Tepper to Dinner at The Church Brew Works
6:30 - 8:45 p.m. Cocktails and Dinner: Church Brew Works, 3525 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15201
8:45 p.m. Departure from The Church Brew Works to the Hyatt House Hotel and The Hotel Indigo
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 2024 - TEP 2700
8 a.m. Shuttle (Amore Vans service) from the Hyatt House and The Hotel Indigo to Tepper
8:30 - 9 a.m. Continental Breakfast - Location TEP 2612
9 - 10 a.m.  Talk 1 – Inattentive Economies by Karthik Sastry (Princeton)  [pdf]
Discussion by Phil Stocken (Dartmouth)
10 - 10:30 a.m. Break - TEP 2612
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Talk 2 – Asymmetric Information, Disagreement, and the Valuation of Debt and Equity by Kevin Smith (Standford) [pdf]
Discussion by Duane Seppi (CMU)
11:30  a.m. - 12 p.m. Break - TEP 2612
12 - 1 p.m. Talk 3 – The Inference-Forecast Gap in Belief Updating by Yucheng Liang [pdf]
Discussion by Hong Qu (Kennesaw State)
1 p.m. Lunch - TEP 2612
TBD