Formerly Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA)
William Larimer Mellon, Founder
Schenley Park
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890
United States of America

Pierre Jinghong Liang
Associate Professor of Accounting

Accounting and Information Economics
-- Topics on Market Settings

Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
 
Instructor: Pierre Jinghong Liang
 

Downloading Syllabus-Fall 2004
 
Texbook: Peter Christensen and Gerald Feltham. 2003. Economics of Accounting: Information in Markets, Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (ISBN: 1402072295)
 
Course Objectives:
This course introduces economic theories of information in markets, with an emphasis on accounting information. Three broad areas are covered (1) Private Information in Market Prices; (2) Price Formation and Market Microstructure; and (3) Voluntary Disclosure to Capital Markets. Original ideas are found in initial papers and accounting ideas, more or less, are introduced into the basic economic settings in subsequent accounting papers.
   
   
   
   

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