Khrystyna Bochkay teaches advanced managerial accounting in the undergraduate program and joined the faculty in 2014 after completing her PhD in Accounting at Rutgers University. Khrystyna holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Masters of Science in Statistics from Ivan Franko National University in L’viv, Ukraine.
Khrystyna’s research interests include corporate disclosures, capital markets, behavioral finance, forecasting and textual analysis. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the usefulness and predictive ability of textual information in annual corporate reports filed with the SEC. Khrystyna is also working on research that explores the information value and disclosure strategies in a large sample of earnings conference calls and other corporate disclosures.
Khrystyna often attends and presents her work at leading accounting conferences and workshops in the US and worldwide. Khrystyna’s other interests include photography, cooking, yoga and traveling.
Empirical capital markets; mandatory and voluntary disclosures; disclosure strategies; forecasting; market participants' use of information, and textual analysis
"Hyperbole or Reality? Investor Response to Extreme Language in Earnings
Conference Calls" (with J. Hales and S. Chava), The Accounting Review, forthcoming.
"Dynamics of CEO Disclosure Style" (with R. Chychyla and D. Nanda), The Accounting Review, forthcoming.
"Management Disclosures of Going-Concern Uncertainties: the Case of Initial Public Offerings" (with K. Bochkay, S. Sankaraguruswamy, and M. Willenborg), The Accounting Review (2018).
"Using MD&A to Improve Earnings Forecasts" (with C. B. Levine), Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance (2017).
