David Tsui

Education

Ph.D., accounting, and A.M., statistics, University of Pennsylvania; B.B.A., accounting and finance, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Summary of Experience

Dr. Tsui specializes in the application of economic theory and statistical analysis to complex questions in accounting, corporate finance, and labor economics. He is an expert in corporate governance, executive compensation, and financial contracting, with a particular focus on the role of contracts in addressing incentive conflicts among a firm’s managers, shareholders, creditors, and employees. Dr. Tsui has extensive experience analyzing the role of uncertainty in decision making and incentive contracting, as well as the importance of incorporating appropriate performance measures in compensation systems at both the executive and rank-and-file levels. His other experience includes areas such as insider trading, pay equity and transparency, and debt covenants. Dr. Tsui’s research has been published in peer-reviewed journals in accounting and finance, including the Journal of Accounting and Economics and the Journal of Financial Economics, and he has received several grants and awards for his work. He has also served on the editorial boards for The Accounting Review and the Journal of Management Accounting Research. Dr. Tsui was previously on the faculty at the University of Southern California, where he taught courses on managerial accounting, and he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his academic experience, he worked as an equity analyst covering the automotive industry at Baird.