Joseph Weber

Professor of Accounting at Sloan School of Management

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  • Sloan School of Management

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Joseph Weber specializes in empirical work on the importance of accounting information in financial contracts. His recent work documents how an innovation in the commercial debt market—performance pricing—allows for more efficient contracting by reducing the expected renegotiation costs of the contract. Weber’s research has recently appeared in Accounting Research. When not conducting research, he teaches the Managerial Accounting elective, which is available to first- and second-year MBA students at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to entering academia, Weber worked for PriceWaterhouse and AXA Financial.

Sloan School of Management

Joseph Weber is the George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management and a Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Weber specializes in empirical work on the importance of accounting information in financial contracts. His recent work documents how an innovation in the commercial debt market—performance pricing—allows for more efficient contracting by reducing the expected renegotiation costs of the contract. Weber’s research has recently appeared in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, and the Journal of Accounting and Economics. When not conducting research, Weber teaches the core financial accounting class to first-year MBA students at MIT Sloan. Prior to entering academia, he worked for Price Waterhouse and AXA Financial.

Weber holds a BSB in accounting from Bucknell University and a PhD in accounting from Pennsylvania State University.

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