Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. His research has been published extensively in top accounting journals and focuses on capital markets in accounting, with particular emphasis on market efficiency, litigation risk and bank accounting. He teaches Advanced Financial Accounting and Accounting for Business and Financial Risk at Tulane. Prior to Tulane, he held faculty positions at Yale and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before entering academia, he worked as an investment banker, managing public offerings of large corporations, including Fortune 500 companies.