Edwige CHEYNEL
Columbia School of BusinessUris Hall, Office 614
New-York NY 10027 / Citizenship: French
Office Phone: (212) 851-5841
e-mail:
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor of Accounting / Columbia Business School, since July 2009Instructor / Financial Accounting for MBA, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016
Financial Accounting for SIPA Master Students, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2014
Accounting PhD Seminar in Theory, Spring 2013
Undergraduate Introduction to Accounting at CMU, summer 2008
Auditor / Deloitte in financial services, Paris, 2002-2003
Junior Analyst / BNP-Paribas in Mergers & Acquisitions, Paris, summer 2001
Junior Accountant / Degussa-Huels in management accounting, Frankfurt, summer 2000
Education
2010 / Carnegie Mellon University, Ph.D.2006 / Carnegie Mellon University, M.S.
2002 / HEC School of Management, M.S.
Research Interests
Financial Disclosure and Capital Markets
Managerial Accounting and Auditing
Publications & Working Papers
Analysts' Sale and Distribution of Non-Fundamental Information (joint with Carolyn B. Levine), Review of Accounting Studies, 2012,Volume 17, Number 2, Pages 352-388
A Theory of Voluntary Disclosures and Cost of Capital, Review of Accounting Studies, 2013, Volume 18, No. 4.
The Positive Theory of Disclosure Regulation: In Search of Institutional Foundations (joint with Jeremy Bertomeu), The Accounting Review, 2013, Vol. 88, No. 3, pp. 789-824.
Disclosure and the Cost of Capital: A Survey of the Theoretical Literature. Book chapter joint with Jeremy Bertomeu, Routledge Companion to Accounting Theory, edited by Stewart Jones. Forthcoming.
Asset Measurement with Imperfect Credit Markets (joint with Jeremy Bertomeu), Journal of Accounting Research, 2015, Vol. 53, No 5, pp. 965–984.
Financial Reporting, Interest and Investment: A General Equilibrium Analysis (joint with Jeremy Bertomeu), revise and resubmit.
Public Disclosures and Information Asymmetries: A Theory of the Mosaic (joint with Carolyn B. Levine), revise and resubmit.
On market concentration and disclosure (joint with Amir Ziv) under review
A back-of-the-envelope structural estimator of disclosure costs (joint with Michelle Liu-Watts), under review.
Are the Fama French Factors treated as Risk? Evidence from CEO compensation (joint with Jeremy Bertomeu and Michelle Liu-Watts)
Work in Progress
Testing a cross-sectional theory of earnings manipulation (joint with Jeremy Bertomeu and Michelle Liu-Watts)
Disclose now or never, but never later (joint with Amir Ziv)
Awards & Services
Editorship / Editor of the e journal in Accounting Theory at SSRNDean’s List / HEC 2001
Awards / William Larimer Mellon Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004- 2007
2010 Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory, Tepper Business School, Carnegie Mellon University
Referee / The Accounting Review
Journal of Banking and Finance
Contemporary Accounting Research
JAAF, Journal of Accounting Finance & Law
Journal of Supply Chain and Operations Management
Management Science
Presentations
Rice University Workshop (scheduled in 2016)Chicago University Workshop (scheduled in 2016)
Burton Workshop Columbia University (2015)
Dartmouth Accounting Research Conference (2015)
Stanford Summer Camp Workshop (2015)
Accounting Research Workshop at Zurich (2015)
Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting (CFEA)
(invited discussant 2014)
The 8th Tel Aviv International Conference in Accounting (2014)
Colorado Summer Accounting Research Conference
(invited discussant 2014)
FARS Houston (2014)
University of California at Irvine (2013)
Burton Workshop Columbia University (2013)Accounting Research Workshop at Basel (2013)
Rutgers University (2013)
Burton Workshop Columbia University (2012)Carnegie Mellon University (2012)
UCLA (2012)
AAA Annual Meeting Denver (2011)
Accounting Research Workshop at Frieburg (2011)
Burton Workshop Columbia University (2010)
Chicago Theory Conference at the University of Chicago (2010)
AAA Annual Meeting San Francisco CA (2010)
Columbia University (2009)
University of Michigan (2009)
Northwestern University (2009)
New York University (2009)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2009)
Conferences Attended
2015 / Dartmouth Accounting Research Conference
Stanford Summer Camp Workshop
AAA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
Junior Accounting Theory Chicago, IL
Accounting Research Workshop at Zurich
Chicago-Minnesota Accounting Theory Conference, Minneapolis, MN
Burton Workshop Columbia University, New York, NY
2014 / Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting (CFEA), Georgia, GA
Journal of Law, Finance & Accounting Conference, New York, NY
Chicago-Minnesota Accounting Theory Conference, Minneapolis, MN
Burton Workshop Columbia University, New York, NY
The 8th Tel Aviv International Conference in Accounting, Tel Aviv, Israel
Colorado Summer Accounting Research Conference, Telluride, CO
FARS Houston
2013 / NYUStern AccountingSummer Camp
AAA Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA
Junior Accounting Theory Conference, Anaheim, CA
Chicago-Minnesota Accounting Theory Conference, Minneapolis, MN
CMU Accounting Mini-Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
Burton Workshop Columbia University, New York, NY
2012 / FARS San Diego, CA
Junior Accounting Theory Conference, Washington, DC
Chicago-Minnesota Accounting Theory Conference, Chicago, IL
CMU Accounting Mini-Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
Burton Workshop Columbia University, New York, NY
2011 / Chicago-Minnesota Accounting Theory Conference, Minneapolis, MN
Conference at the University of Toronto, ON
AAA Annual Meeting Denver, CO
Burton Workshop Columbia University, New York, NY
2010 / CMU Accounting Mini-Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
Conference at the University of Toronto, ON
AAA New Faculty Consortium, Virginia, VA
AAA Annual Meeting San Francisco CA
2008
2007 / Burton Workshop Columbia University, New York, NY
CMU Accounting Mini-Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
The University of Texas Accounting and Finance Mini-Conference, Austin TX
FARS Doctoral Consortium, Phoenix, AZ
CMU Accounting Mini-Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
Chicago-Minnesota Accounting Theory Conference, Minneapolis, MN
AAA Annual Meeting, Chicago IL (discussant)
Pennstate Annual Accounting Conference, State College, PA
2004-2006 / CMU Accounting Mini-Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
Languages / French, English, German
Outside Activities NONE