Eli Bartov

About

Eli Bartov is a Professor of Accounting at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He joined Stern in 1992 and holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley obtained in 1989. Professor Bartov is an internationally recognized scholar and an award-winning researcher and educator. His research focuses on financial reporting, executive compensation, the role of social media in the capital market, forensic accounting, stock price formation, mergers and acquisitions, and various aspects of equity valuation and trading strategies. He has published widely in leading academic journals on both theoretical and empirical subjects, and his research was honored with the 2022 AAA/AICPA Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature award. Professor Bartov has contributed to the field through his work on topics such as accounting fraud, earnings management, and the impact of social media on financial markets. He has served as the coordinator of the Accounting Ph.D. Program from 2001 to 2010 and has taught a variety of courses at the MBA, EMBA, Custom Executive Education, and Ph.D. levels. Recognized for his teaching excellence, he received the 2010 Excellence in Teaching award and multiple 'Great Professor' awards from the NYU Stern Executive MBA program. Professor Bartov has also been invited to lecture internationally on topics including executive compensation, stock options, earnings management, and equity valuation, and has testified in legal cases related to financial reporting and…

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Accounting
• Business
• Economics
• Political Science
• Financial economics
• Finance
• Microeconomics
• Actuarial science
• Public relations

Selected publications

• Can Twitter Help Predict Firm-Level Earnings and Stock Returns?

  The Accounting Review · 2017-07-01 · 595 citations

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  ABSTRACT Prior research has examined how companies exploit Twitter in communicating with investors, and whether Twitter activity predicts the stock market as a whole. We test whether opinions of individuals tweeted just prior to a firm's earnings announcement predict its earnings and announcement returns. Using a broad sample from 2009 to 2012, we find that the aggregate opinion from individual tweets successfully predicts a firm's forthcoming quarterly earnings and announcement returns. These r…

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• Corporate Social Responsibility and the Market Reaction to Negative Events: Evidence from Inadvertent and Fraudulent Restatement Announcements

  The Accounting Review · 2020 · 130 citations

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  ABSTRACT We advance a theory asserting that CSR performance may exacerbate, not necessarily moderate, a company's negative stock price response to negative events. In testing this theory, we hypothesize and find that CSR performance alleviates (magnifies) the immediate negative stock price response to inadvertent (fraudulent) restatement announcements, and that these findings are robust to specifications that consider alternative CSR measures and a multitude of control variables shown by prior r…

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• Does Income Statement Placement Matter to Investors? The Case of Gains/Losses from Early Debt Extinguishment

  The Accounting Review · 2014-06-01 · 62 citations

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  ABSTRACT Does the placement of a line item in the income statement matter to investors? The passage of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 145 (Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB] 2002) affords a quasi-experimental setting to answer this question, because pre-SFAS No. 145, gains/losses from early debt extinguishments were reported below the line, while post-SFAS No. 145, they were reported above the line. After controlling for other identified changes that occur during…

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• SEC Filings, Regulatory Deadlines, and Capital Market Consequences

  Accounting Horizons · 2017-09-01 · 52 citations

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  SYNOPSIS Timely disclosure of financial statement information is a critical requirement for firms and well-functioning capital markets. Yet, every quarter or year, a non-trivial number of firms are late in filing their financial statements. This paper identifies and probes various capital market consequences for late filings of quarterly and annual financial statements. It examines the short- and long-window reaction to late filings, as well as how equity investors process statements accompanyin…

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• The Role of Social Media in the Corporate Bond Market: Evidence from Twitter

  Management Science · 2022 · 37 citations

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  Prior studies document the role social media information plays in the stock market and the important dissimilarities between the bond and stock markets. Bridging these two types of literature, we examine the role of social media information in the corporate bond market. Analyzing a broad sample of messages by Twitter individual users, posted just prior to earnings announcements, containing bond, credit risk, and fundamental information, we find that aggregate Twitter opinion (OPI) predicts upcom…

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Frequent coauthors

• Partha S. Mohanram

  University of Toronto

  13 shared

• Lucile Faurel

  Arizona State University

  9 shared

• Gordon M. Bodnar

  Johns Hopkins University

  8 shared

• Linda Vincent

  7 shared

• Laureen A. Maines

  PricewaterhouseCoopers (South Korea)

  7 shared

• Russell Mallett

  7 shared

• Patricia M. Fairfield

  Georgetown University

  7 shared

• D. Eric Hirst

  The University of Texas at Austin

  7 shared

Awards & honors

• Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award, Americ…
• Great Professor Award, Stern's Executive MBA Class of August…
• Great Professor Award, Stern's Executive MBA Class of August…
• Great Professor Award, Stern's Executive MBA Class of August…
• Great Professor Award, Stern's Executive MBA Class of August…

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