Andrew Bird

PHONE

412-268-9170

OFFICE

POS - Posner Hall - Room 238

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Accounting

EDUCATION

University of Toronto - Ph D (Economics) - 2013
University of Toronto - MA (Economics) - 2007
University of Guelph - BA (Economics) - 2006

USEFUL LINKS

Personal Website

PUBLICATIONS

• Governance and Taxes: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity

(author(s): Stephen Karolyi, Andrew Bird) The Accounting Review 92(1), 2017; 29-50

• Do Institutional Investors Demand Public Disclosure?

(author(s): Andrew Bird, Stephen Karolyi) Review of Financial Studies 29(12), 2016; 3245-3277

WORKING PAPERS

• Short Selling Governance and Intrafirm Resource Allocation

(author(s): James Albertus, Andrew Bird, Stephen Karolyi, Thomas Ruchti)

• Regulating Information

(author(s): Andrew Bird, Stephen Karolyi, Thomas Ruchti)

• Strategic Disclosure Misclassification

(author(s): Andrew Bird, Stephen Karolyi, Paul Ma)

• Short-Termism Spillovers from the Financial Industry

(author(s): Andrew Bird, Aytekin Ertan, Stephen Karolyi, Thomas Ruchti)

• University-Level Recruiting and Black Underrepresentation in the Auditing Profession

(author(s): Andrew Bird, Chan Li, Paul Madsen, Thomas Ruchti)

• Understanding the "Numbers Game"

(author(s): Andrew Bird, Stephen Karolyi, Thomas Ruchti)

• Allies in the Break Room: The Effect of Accounting Alumni on Auditor Choice and the Hiring Agenda

(author(s): Andrew Bird, Nam Ho, Thomas Ruchti)

• Real Effects of Voluntary Disclosure: Evidence from Private Firm Financing

(author(s): Andrew Bird, Stephen Karolyi, Thomas Ruchti)

• That''s What Friends are for: Audit Quality and Accounting Employee Affiliations with Audit Firms

(author(s): Andrew Bird, Nam Ho, Chan Li, Thomas Ruchti)

• Bank Regulator Bias and the Efficacy of Stress Test Disclosures

(author(s): Andrew Bird, Stephen Karolyi, Thomas Ruchti, Austin Sudbury)

• Peer Effects and Tax Avoidance

(author(s): Andrew Bird, Alexander Edwards, Thomas Ruchti)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• Faculty Computing Committee, Committee Member (2015 - )
• BEAC, Committee Member (2014 - )
• Tepper Accounting Mini Conference, Workshop Organizer (2014 - 2014)

COURSES TAUGHT

• Financial and Managerial Accounting I (45700) 2016 Mini 1 Section: A, B, C

• Intro To Accounting (70122) 2016 Section: 1, 2

• Taxes and Business Strategy (45903) 2016 Mini 4 Section: A
  2015 Mini 4 Section: E

• INTRO TO ACCOUNTING (70122) 2015 Section: 1, 2
  2013 Section: 1, 2

• Issues in Taxation for Accounting & Finance (47711) 2013 Mini 2 Section: A