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Biographies for Volume 24 , no.4
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 24 (2005) 355–356 www.elsevier.com/locate/jaccpubpol
Biographies for Volume 24, No. 4 Asli Ascioglu is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Bryant University, Smithfield, RI. She earned her doctorate degree from University of Memphis in 2000. At Bryant, she has served as the coordinator of C.V. Starr Financial Markets Center educational trading room, where she directed the academic integration of the trading room resources into the Bryant curriculum. Her research interests are in market microstructure covering topics such as market liquidity, information asymmetry, and order execution quality. She has published papers in academic journals such as Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Financial Services and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Steven Balsam, Professor of Accounting and Merves Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, obtained his Ph.D. from the City University of New York (Baruch College) in 1991. His research interests are executive compensation, earnings management, and capital markets. In addition to publishing a book on executive compensation (An Introduction to Executive Compensation, Academic Press, 2002), he has published articles in academic journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and Accounting Horizons. He has been quoted, and his work cited by The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Business Journal, and the Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh). Prior to coming to Temple University he taught at Baruch College and the University of Rochester. Before entering academia he was a Certified Public Accountant working for the international accounting firm of Ernst & Young. Lawrence D. Brown is the J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of Accountancy at Georgia State University. He received his BS from SUNY-Buffalo, MBA from University of Chicago, and Ph.D. from University of Rochester. He has over 80 publications and he has made more than 160 presentations at universities and professional conferences. He has published at least two articles in 13 journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Finance, and Financial Analysts Journal. His 100+ media and business press citations include Barron’s, Bloomberg Forum, Business Week, CNBC, Des Spiegel, The Economist, Forbes, Fortune, Institutional Investor, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He is an editor of The Accounting Review, an associate editor of International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and he is on the Editorial Board of Contemporary Accounting Research. Shantaram Hegde is a Professor of Finance and the Coordinator of the Finance Ph.D. Program at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. He holds a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and M.Com from Karnataka University, India. His research in the 1980s focused on futures pricing and hedging and appeared in Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Elsevier Inc. doi:10.1016/S0278-4254(05)00041-4
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Finance, Financial Analysts Journal, and Journal of Portfolio Management. Recently he has published papers on initial public offerings and market microstructure in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, Financial Management, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and Financial Review. Huong N. Higgins is Associate Professor of Accounting at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Department of Management. She teaches financial accounting in the MBA and undergraduate programs at WPI. She received her Ph.D. degree in Accounting from Georgia State University. She has authored or co-authored over 15 publications in various journals, such as the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, the International Journal of Accounting, Financial Analyst Journal, and Research in Accounting Regulation, and one book chapter. Yuji Ijiri is Robert M. Trueblood University Professor of Accounting and Economics, at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. He received his doctorate from CMU in 1963 and, after having joined the faculty of Stanford Business School for four years, returned to CMU in 1967, and has been on its faculty since then. He has also been on the editorial board of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy since its inception in 1981. In 1982–83, he served as President of the American Accounting Association. In 1989, he was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame at Ohio State University. He has published twenty-five books and has two hundred journal publications in the fields of accounting, economics, and mathematics. John McDermott is an Associate Professor of Finance and Head of the Department of Management at the US Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 2000 and MBA from Columbia University in 1990. His research interests are in market microstructure and market liquidity. He has published papers in Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Qin Jennifer Yin is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Prior to joining UTSA, she was a faculty member at Rutgers University at Camden. She obtained her Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Houston in 1999. Her current research interests include earnings management, market response to accounting information, and executive compensation. Her research articles have appeared in the Journal of the American Taxation Association, Review of Accounting and Finance, and Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting.
Biographies for Volume 24, No. 4 Asli Ascioglu is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Bryant University, Smithfield, RI. She earned her doctorate degree from University of Memphis in 2000. At Bryant, she has served as the coordinator of C.V. Starr Financial Markets Center educational trading room, where she directed the academic integration of the trading room resources into the Bryant curriculum. Her research interests are in market microstructure covering topics such as market liquidity, information asymmetry, and order execution quality. She has published papers in academic journals such as Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Financial Services and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Steven Balsam, Professor of Accounting and Merves Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, obtained his Ph.D. from the City University of New York (Baruch College) in 1991. His research interests are executive compensation, earnings management, and capital markets. In addition to publishing a book on executive compensation (An Introduction to Executive Compensation, Academic Press, 2002), he has published articles in academic journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and Accounting Horizons. He has been quoted, and his work cited by The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Business Journal, and the Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh). Prior to coming to Temple University he taught at Baruch College and the University of Rochester. Before entering academia he was a Certified Public Accountant working for the international accounting firm of Ernst & Young. Lawrence D. Brown is the J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of Accountancy at Georgia State University. He received his BS from SUNY-Buffalo, MBA from University of Chicago, and Ph.D. from University of Rochester. He has over 80 publications and he has made more than 160 presentations at universities and professional conferences. He has published at least two articles in 13 journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Finance, and Financial Analysts Journal. His 100+ media and business press citations include Barron’s, Bloomberg Forum, Business Week, CNBC, Des Spiegel, The Economist, Forbes, Fortune, Institutional Investor, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He is an editor of The Accounting Review, an associate editor of International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and he is on the Editorial Board of Contemporary Accounting Research. Shantaram Hegde is a Professor of Finance and the Coordinator of the Finance Ph.D. Program at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. He holds a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and M.Com from Karnataka University, India. His research in the 1980s focused on futures pricing and hedging and appeared in Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Elsevier Inc. doi:10.1016/S0278-4254(05)00041-4
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Finance, Financial Analysts Journal, and Journal of Portfolio Management. Recently he has published papers on initial public offerings and market microstructure in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, Financial Management, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and Financial Review. Huong N. Higgins is Associate Professor of Accounting at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Department of Management. She teaches financial accounting in the MBA and undergraduate programs at WPI. She received her Ph.D. degree in Accounting from Georgia State University. She has authored or co-authored over 15 publications in various journals, such as the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, the International Journal of Accounting, Financial Analyst Journal, and Research in Accounting Regulation, and one book chapter. Yuji Ijiri is Robert M. Trueblood University Professor of Accounting and Economics, at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. He received his doctorate from CMU in 1963 and, after having joined the faculty of Stanford Business School for four years, returned to CMU in 1967, and has been on its faculty since then. He has also been on the editorial board of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy since its inception in 1981. In 1982–83, he served as President of the American Accounting Association. In 1989, he was inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame at Ohio State University. He has published twenty-five books and has two hundred journal publications in the fields of accounting, economics, and mathematics. John McDermott is an Associate Professor of Finance and Head of the Department of Management at the US Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 2000 and MBA from Columbia University in 1990. His research interests are in market microstructure and market liquidity. He has published papers in Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Qin Jennifer Yin is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Prior to joining UTSA, she was a faculty member at Rutgers University at Camden. She obtained her Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Houston in 1999. Her current research interests include earnings management, market response to accounting information, and executive compensation. Her research articles have appeared in the Journal of the American Taxation Association, Review of Accounting and Finance, and Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting.