Mark W. Nelson is the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean and Professor of Accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. Dean Nelson’s research examines psychological and economic factors that influence how people make decisions with financial information; interpret and apply accounting, auditing, and tax regulations; and trade in financial markets. His research has been published widely in both accounting and psychology journals, and acknowledged with the AAA’s Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Award, the AAA’s Wildman Medal, AJPT’s inaugural Best Paper Award, and the Johnson School’s Faculty Research Award. Dean Nelson’s teaching has focused on intermediate financial accounting and financial reporting, as well as judgment and decision making in accounting. He has received ten teaching awards at Cornell and Ohio State, including the American Accounting Association’s inaugural Cook Prize for graduate teaching excellence. Dean Nelson is a co-author (with Spiceland and Thomas) of “Intermediate Accounting” and has served three terms as an editor of the Accounting Review as well as four years on the FASB’s Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council.
Wall Street vs. Main Street
Event Overview
In this live online session, Cornell finance professors Maureen O’Hara and Scott Yonker will share their insights on how to configure our thinking about 2021’s wild start and whether rogues or rationality will ultimately drive the markets.
What You'll Learn
- What short squeeze and gamma squeeze mean and the roles these situations can play
- Historical lessons of stock bubble winners and losers
- How fundamental value is recognized or ignored by the markets
Speakers
Maureen O’Hara is the Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business; she also holds a professorship at the University of Technology Sydney. Professor O’Hara’s research focuses on issues in market microstructure, recently examining how ETFs affect market stability, liquidity issues in corporate bond markets, and transaction costs in bitcoin. She publishes widely on a broad range of topics, including banking and financial intermediaries, law and finance, experimental economics, and finance and ethics (her book “Something for Nothing: Arbitrage and Ethics on Wall Street” was published by Norton in 2016). Professor O’Hara is the author of numerous journal articles as well as the text “Market Microstructure Theory” (Blackwell: 1995).
Scott Yonker is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. His primary research interests are in the areas of corporate finance, behavioral finance, and investments. Professor Yonker’s work appears in the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and he has been cited by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Bloomberg. Professor Yonker serves as an associate editor at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
Mark W. Nelson is the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean and Professor of Accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. Dean Nelson’s research examines psychological and economic factors that influence how people make decisions with financial information; interpret and apply accounting, auditing, and tax regulations; and trade in financial markets. His research has been published widely in both accounting and psychology journals, and acknowledged with the AAA’s Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Award, the AAA’s Wildman Medal, AJPT’s inaugural Best Paper Award, and the Johnson School’s Faculty Research Award. Dean Nelson’s teaching has focused on intermediate financial accounting and financial reporting, as well as judgment and decision making in accounting. He has received ten teaching awards at Cornell and Ohio State, including the American Accounting Association’s inaugural Cook Prize for graduate teaching excellence. Dean Nelson is a co-author (with Spiceland and Thomas) of “Intermediate Accounting” and has served three terms as an editor of the Accounting Review as well as four years on the FASB’s Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council.
Maureen O’Hara is the Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business; she also holds a professorship at the University of Technology Sydney. Professor O’Hara’s research focuses on issues in market microstructure, recently examining how ETFs affect market stability, liquidity issues in corporate bond markets, and transaction costs in bitcoin. She publishes widely on a broad range of topics, including banking and financial intermediaries, law and finance, experimental economics, and finance and ethics (her book “Something for Nothing: Arbitrage and Ethics on Wall Street” was published by Norton in 2016). Professor O’Hara is the author of numerous journal articles as well as the text “Market Microstructure Theory” (Blackwell: 1995).
Scott Yonker is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. His primary research interests are in the areas of corporate finance, behavioral finance, and investments. Professor Yonker’s work appears in the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and he has been cited by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Bloomberg. Professor Yonker serves as an associate editor at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
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