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Susan Shu

Professor and Kathleen Fruin Corbet Faculty Fellow

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Susan Shu

Contact

Fulton Hall 560A

Email: susan.shu.1@bc.edu

Education

  • BS, University of Dubuque
  • MS, University of Rochester
  • Ph.D, University of Rochester

Research Interests

Corporate Disclosure; Media; Social Media; Security Litigation; Enforcement; Insider Trading; Auditor-Client Alignment; and Cost of Capital.

Expertise

  • Valuation, Asset Pricing, and Financial Statement Analysis
  • Capital Markets
  • Disclosure

Department

Accounting

Profile

Susan Shu earned her MS and PhD from the University of Rochester. Her research interests include corporate disclosure, social media, media, enforcement, securities litigation, and regulation. Her research has appeared in leading academic journals such as听Journal of Accounting and Economics,听Journal of Financial Economics,听Journal of Accounting Research, and听The Accounting Review. In 2014 Professor Shu received the prestigious Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association for her paper "Do Managers Withhold Bad News?鈥�

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Winner of听Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Award听for 鈥淒o managers withhold bad news?鈥� 2014.
  • E.听Yetton听Prize听of Best Paper Award听for 鈥淧roperties of implied cost of capital using analysts鈥� forecasts鈥� Australian Journal of Management 2011.
  • Ernst & Young Research听Fellowship,听2015-2017
  • Katheleen Fruin Corbet Fellowship, 2024-
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