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Susan Shu

Professor

Kathleen Fruin Corbet Faculty Fellow

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Susan Shu

Contact

Fulton Hall 560A

Email: susan.shu.1@bc.edu

Education

  • BS, University of Dubuque
  • MS, University of Rochester
  • Ph.D, University of Rochester

Research Interests

Corporate Disclosure; Media; Social Media; Security Litigation; Enforcement; Insider Trading; Auditor-Client Alignment; and Cost of Capital.

Expertise

  • Valuation, Asset Pricing, and Financial Statement Analysis
  • Capital Markets
  • Disclosure

Department

Accounting

Profile

Professor Susan Shu earned her B.A. from the University of Dubuque and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. She is the Director of the Ph.D. program in accounting. Her research interests include corporate disclosure, media, social media, security litigation under U.S. securities laws, enforcement, insider trading, and economics of auditor-client alignments. Her research has appeared inleading academic journals such as the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and The Accounting Review. In 2014, Professor Shu received the prestigious Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association for her (coauthored) paper 鈥淒o Managers Withhold Bad News?鈥�

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Winner of听Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Award听for 鈥淒o managers withhold bad news?鈥� 2014.
  • E.听Yetton听Prize听of Best Paper Award听for 鈥淧roperties of implied cost of capital using analysts鈥� forecasts鈥� Australian Journal of Management 2011.
  • Ernst & Young Research听Fellowship,听2015-2017
  • Katheleen Fruin Corbet Fellowship, 2024-
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