Edwige Cheynel
Associate Professor of Accounting
Area of Expertise:
Accounting, Auditing, Corporate Governance, Financial Reporting, Managerial Accounting, Regulation, Economics, Financial Economics
Research Interests:
Financial Disclosure and Capital Markets
Selected Publications:
- "Analysts' Sale and Distribution of Non-Fundamental Information", Review of Accounting Studies, Issue 2, 352-388, with C. Levine, 2012
- "A Theory of Voluntary Disclosures and Cost of Capital", Review of Accounting Studies, Issue 4, 2013
- "Toward a Positive Theory of Disclosure Regulation: In Search of Institutional Foundations", The Accounting Review, Issue 3, 789-824, with J. Bertomeu, 2013
- "Disclosure and the Cost of Capital: A Survey of Theoretical Literature", Issue 2, 221-258, with J. Bertomeu, 2016
- "Are the Fama French factors treated as risk? Evidence from CEO compensation", European Financial Management, Issue 5, 728-774, with J. Bertomeu, M. Liu-Watts, 2018
- "Public Disclosures and Information Asymmetry: A Theory of the Mosaic", The Accounting Review, with C. Levine, 2020
- "A Simple Structural Estimator of Disclosure Costs", Review of Accounting Studies, 201–245, with M. Liu-Watts, 2020
- "Using machine learning to detect misstatements", Review of Accounting Studies, Issue 2, 468-519, with J. Bertomeu, E. Floyd, W. Pan, 2020
- "Asset Management with Imperfect Credit Markets", Journal of Accounting Research, Issue 5, 965-984, with J. Bertomeu, 2015
Awards/Honors:
- Excellence in Teaching Award for Flex Evening MBAs, 2019
- Excellence in Teaching Award for Flex Weekend MBAs, 2019
- Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper Business School School, 2010
Personal Interests:
Hiking, Traveling
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Edwige Cheynel’s primary area of research is exploring the relationship between disclosure, financial markets and the cost of capital. She has approached the question of disclosure and the cost of capital from three avenues, all of which involve understanding a firm’s disclosure as a choice that it makes. The first avenue specifically focuses on the problem of firms raising capital for the purpose of investment decisions and how these investment decisions are related to the disclosure. The second avenue focuses on the disclosure as a choice made by both a standard-setting body and firms. The third avenue looks specifically at how characteristics of the market environment (both financial or product market) may determine the type of disclosures that are made. Edwige received the William Larimer Mellon Fellowship from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004-2007 and the Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory from Tepper Business School, Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. She has published in the top journals in accounting, such as The Review of Accounting Studies, The Journal of Accounting Research and The Accounting Review. She earned an M.S. from the HEC School of Management in 2002 and a M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006. In 2010, Cheynel earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.
Email: echeynel@wustl.edu
PhD 2010, Carnegie Mellon University
MS 2006, Carnegie Mellon University
MS 2002, HEC School of Management
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