Seminario The Determinants, Benefits, and Costs of High-Quality Investor Relations

The seminar is reserved for the Department of Management’s community. Other interested colleagues can contact Eleonora Monaco (e.monaco@unibo.it).

Short Biography

Elizabeth Demers earned her PhD in Accounting from Stanford University and served on the faculties of the University of Rochester, INSEAD, UVA-Darden, and the University of Lausanne before returning to her undergraduate/M.Acc. alma mater, the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, where she is the Deloitte Professor of Accounting. She has taught and/or presented her research at institutions and conferences in more than 30 countries. Her current research focuses on corporate sustainability and investor relations. Her work has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Review of Accounting Studies, JBFA, Contemporary Accounting Research, Harvard Business Review, Accounting Horizons, and other top outlets, and is widely cited by academics and the financial press (Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Globe & Mail Report on Business, etc.), as well as by regulators such as the U.S. SEC. She has served on numerous boards and committees, including: the EAA’s Stakeholder Reporting Committee, the Academic Advisory Committee to the Canadian Accounting Standards Board, Canadian Academic Accounting Association’s Board of Directors, and the Sustainability Strategic Advisory Committee for CPA Ontario. She is currently an editor of the JBFA and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Accounting Research.