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Susan Shu

Professor

Kathleen Fruin Corbet Faculty Fellow

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Susan Shu

Contact

Fulton Hall 560A

Email: susan.shu.1@bc.edu

Education

  • BS, University of Dubuque
  • MS, University of Rochester
  • Ph.D, University of Rochester

Research Interests

Corporate Disclosure; Media; Social Media; Security Litigation; Enforcement; Insider Trading; Auditor-Client Alignment; and Cost of Capital.

Expertise

  • Valuation, Asset Pricing, and Financial Statement Analysis
  • Capital Markets
  • Disclosure

Department

Accounting

Profile

Susan Shu earned her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. Her research interests include corporate disclosure, media, social media, enforcement, security litigation, insider trading, initial public offerings, and economics of auditor-client alignments. Her research has appeared in leading academic journals such as聽Journal of Accounting and Economics,听Journal of Financial Economics, and聽Journal of Accounting Research. In 2014 Professor Shu received the prestigious Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association for her (coauthored) paper "Do Managers Withhold Bad News?"

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Winner of聽Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Award聽for 鈥淒o managers withhold bad news?鈥� 2014.
  • E.聽Yetton聽Prize聽of Best Paper Award聽for 鈥淧roperties of implied cost of capital using analysts鈥� forecasts鈥� Australian Journal of Management 2011.
  • Ernst & Young Research聽Fellowship,听2015-2017
  • Research Incentive Grants, 涩里番下载, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2010
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