Research Interests

Information content of accounting disclosures (focused on financial distress); and behavioral finance

Featured Publications

• Weisbrod, 2017, Stockholders' Unrealized Returns and the Market Reaction to Financial Disclosures. Forthcoming, The Journal of Finance.

  Akbas, F., S. Markov, M. Subasi, and E. Weisbrod, 2017, Determinants and Consequences of Information Processing Delay: Evidence from Thomson Reuters' Institutional Brokers Estimate System. Forthcoming, Journal of Financial Economics.

  Dhaliwal, D., S. Kaplan, R. Laux, and E. Weisbrod, 2013, The Information Content of Tax Expense for Firms Reporting Losses, Journal of Accounting Research, 51 (1): 135-164.

Teaching and Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Accounting, Miami Herbert Business School, 2012 - Present
• Certified Public Accountant, California, 2008 - Present
• Analyst, Cornerstone Research, 2005 - 2007

Specialties

• Financial accounting
• Financial distress

Degrees

• Ph.D., Accounting, Arizona State University W.P. Carey School of Business, 2012
• B.A., Economics, Accounting, Claremont McKenna College, 2005

Honors and Awards

• Provost’s Research Award in Business and Social Sciences, University of Miami, 2012
• J. Hal Reneau Memorial Fellowship, Arizona State University, 2011
• Outstanding Doctoral Student Fellowship, Arizona State University, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008
• AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2010
• California Society of CPAs Doctoral Scholarship, 2010 - 2012
• University Graduate Fellowship for Outstanding Achievement on Doctoral Comprehensive Exam, Arizona State University, 2009
• Outstanding Scholar Award, Financial Executives International, Los Angeles Chapter, 2004