Thomas Lys
Eric L. Kohler Chair in Accounting and Professor of Accounting Information & Management, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; Professor of Law (by courtesy), Northwestern University Law School
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Elizabeth Eccher
Education:
Ph.D., and M.S., accounting and finance, University of Rochester
Summary of Experience:
Professor Lys is an expert in accounting and finance, including real estate finance, financial reporting, securities analysis, and mergers and acquisitions. He has consulted with Cox Communications, Ciba Chemical, General Electric, IBM, USX, and Guidant Corporation, and provided expert testimony on the economic substance of a sale-in/lease-out transaction and related financing issues in AWG Leasing Trust v. United States of America.
Professor Lys’s research interests include risk arbitrage, labor participation in corporate decisions, auditors’ liability, and earnings forecasts. He is an editor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics, serves on the editorial board of The Accounting Review, and has published his research in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Business, and the Journal of Monetary Economics.