Kaustav Sen

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

Kaustav Sen, PhD is Professor of Accounting. He has published in the areas of corporate governance, financial reporting and stock price anomalies. He has presented at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, been awarded funding by the National Stock Exchange of India, has received best paper awards from the American Accounting Association (Ohio) and the Securities Exchange Board of India, and has been cited by the Economist. In the past, he served as the Accounting Department’s Ernst & Young scholar.

Dr. Sen serves on the Editorial Board of Journal of International Accounting, Auditing & Taxation and as a reviewer for several other journals. He has been a consultant at Prudential, New York Life and GE Capital in equity investments and risk management. He has held visiting faculty positions at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Dr. Sen primarily teaches classes in financial, managerial and systems. He has received the Innovation in Teaching Award at Lubin and received curriculum development grants from Verizon and SAP.

SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS & PUBLICATIONS

Basu, D., Sen, K. (2022). Organizational Form and Access to Capital: The Role of Regulatory Interventions. Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics. Read More >>

Braga Alves, M.V., Ismailescu, I., Sen, K. (2022). Powerful CEOs and their legacy: Evidence from credit risk around CEO turnovers. Quarterly Review Of Economics And Finance. 84345-358. Read More >>

Col, B., Sen, K. (2019). The Role of Corporate Governance for Acquisitions by the Emerging Market Multinationals: Evidence from India. Journal of Corporate Finance. 59239-254. Read More >>

Nagar, N., Sen, K. (2017). Do financially distressed firms misclassify core expenses?. Accounting Research Journal. 30(2), 205-223. Read More >>

Nagar, N., Sen, K. (2016). How does regulation affect the relation between family control and reported cash flows? Comparative evidence from India and the United States.. Corporate Governance: An International Review. 24(5), 490-508. Read More >>

Nagar, N., Sen, K. (2016). Earnings management in India: Managers’ fixation on operating profits. Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation. 261-12. Read More >>

Basu, D., Sen, K. (2015). Financial Decisions by Business Groups in India: Is it “Fair and Square”?. Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics. 11(2), 121-137. Read More >>

Sarkar, J., Sarkar, S., Sen, K. (2012). Analysis of a Corporate Governance Index for Large Listed Companies in India. Indian Accounting Review. 16(1), 18.

Sen, K. (2009). Earnings Surprise and Sophisticated Investor Preferences in India. Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics. 5(1), 1-19.

Sarkar, J., Sarkar, S., Sen, K. (2008). Board of Directors and Opportunistic Earnings Management: Evidence from India. Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance. 23(4), 517-.

Sen, K., Vishwanath, P. (2005). Testing Dividend Theories: Evidence from Dividend Payments Versus Earnings Retention. ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance. 115-13.

Sen, K. (2004). An Analysis of the Value Relevance of Earnings in India during 1991-2002. Indian Accounting Review. 8(2), 19-33.

Srinidhi, B., Sen, K. (2002). What Causes Memory in Multi-period Contracts?. Advances In Quantitative Analysis Of Finance And Accounting. 10255-269.

Sen, K. (2002). The Determinants of Current and Long-term Components of CEO Compensation. Advances In Quantitative Analysis Of Finance And Accounting. 101-22.

Sen, K. (2001). Does The Measure Of Information Quality Influence Survival Bias?. International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management. 18(9), 967-981.

Sen, K. (1998). Using an Augmented Revelation Mechanism to Resolve Tacit Collusion in Auditing. Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance. 13(2), 99-116.