Carolyn B. Levine

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Associate Professor of Accounting

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Financial accounting; financial statement analysis; valuation; theoretical issues in financial accounting, discretionary and mandatory disclosure and standard setting implications, information, contracts and organizational design, recommendations and forecasts of financial analysts.

Published Papers: 

• Management Compensation and Earnings-Based Covenants in Resolving Adverse Selection in Credit Markets
  Journal of Corporate Finance 11, 2005; 832-850.
  (With: J. Hughes)
  
  
• Discipline with Common Agency: The Case of Audit and Non-Audit Services
  Accounting Review 79, 01/01/2004; 173-200.
  (With: Laura Kornish)
  
  
• Management Compensation and Earnings-Based Covenants in Resolving Adverse Selection in Credit Markets
  Journal of Corporate Finance forthcoming.
  (With: J. Hughes)
  
  
• Public Disclosure and Dissimulation of Insider Trades
  Econometrica, 2001.
  (With: Steven J. Huddart, J. Hughes)
  
  
• An Approach to Adjusting Analysts' Consensus Forecasts for Selection Bias
  Contemporary Accounting Research, 2000.
  (With: R. Hayes)
  
  
• Earnings Predictability and Bias in Analysts' Forecasts
  Accounting Review, 1998.
  (With: Somnath Das, K. Sivaramakrishnan)
  
  

Working Papers: 

• The Sale and Use of Non-Fundamental Information
  July, 2008.
  (With: Edwige Cheynel)
  For Further Information
  
  
• Post Audit Evidence and Stealth Withdrawals
  May, 2008.
  (With: Edwige Cheynel)
  For Further Information
  
  
• Critical Accounting Policy Disclosures
  May, 2008.
  
  

Awards:

• Xerox Research Chair, Tepper School of Business - 2007-08
• Caterpillar Research Chair, Tepper School of Business - 2002-03

Courses Taught:

• Financial Accounting (45-700)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: B)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: C)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: F)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: M)
  • 2007, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 1 (Section: B)
  • 2007, Mini 1 (Section: F)
  • 2007, Mini 1 (Section: M)
  
  
• Market Dynamics I (47-910)
  (Ph.D. Program)
  • 2007, Mini 4 (Section: A)