Positions

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Works in progress

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2013

• Visiting Fellow at WIAS, Tokyo (January 2013)

 

• Visiting Fellow at Laboratorio Fibonacci (UMI 3483), Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, February 2013

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• Scientific Committee Member of the 14th CIGAR 2013 Conference “In the Eye of the Storm: Public Sector Accounting, Financial Crisis and Austerity,” Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK, September 2-3, 2013.

• Scientific Advisor and lead organiser of the second Critical Studies in Accounting and Finance Conference 2013, UAEU, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 15-17 December 2013

• Plenary speaker at 3rd International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society on "Financial Regulation & Systemic Risk", LabEx-ReFi, Paris, 6-8 June 2013

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2012

• Visit at Waseda University of Tokyo (February and November 2012)

Keynote speaker at the International Symposium on "Current Issues surrounding IFRS", Waseda Accounting Research Center, 9 Febrary 2012

Plenary speech at The 3rd International Conference of THE JAPANESE ACCOUNTING REVIEW (TJAR) in Kyoto, Organized by Kobe University, Kyoto University, and Doshisha University, 9 November 2012

| Abstract and Paper

• Visit at the United Arab Emirates University - UAEU of Abu Dhabi (April 2012)

  

   

• "The Governance and Disclosure of the Firm as an Enterprise Entity", keynote speech at the Fourth Symposium of the Adolf A. Berle, Jr. Center on Corporations, Law and Society on " The Future of Financial Securities Markets," University College London, London, 14 & 15 June, 2012

| Symposium 2012 | Abstract and Paper

• Keynote speaker at the International Conference jointly sponsored by the Capital Markets Board of Turkey and Bogazici University, Istanbul,  28-29 May 2012

 

• "Accounting, Economics and Law of the Firm as an Entity: Implications for Corporate Governance", Seminar for the FDIR, AFG, Paris, 22 February 2012

• Scientific Committee Member of the IAAER International Conference on "Mastering Change: Improving Corporate Reporting and Auditing to Match New Demands," Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 20-21 June 2012

• Scientific Committee Member for "Social Systems, Economics and Finance," European Conference on Complex Systems 2012 (ECCS'12), Brussels, 3-7 September 2012

  Complex Systems Society

• Visiting scholar to Yale University (August 2012)

• Plenary Roundtable Speaker at the Conference on "Normalisation comptable et transformation du droit", Académie des Sciences Techniques, Comptables, Financières, 22 Novembre 2012

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• Panel on "Accounting and Business Economics: Insights from National Traditions", Etats Généraux de la recherche comptable, Autorité des Normes Comptables (ANC), Paris, 14 December 2012

 

2011

• "The Problem of Social Income", invited speaker at the Second Symposium of the Adolf A. Berle, Jr. Center on Corporations, Law and Society, Seattle University, 21-22 January, 2011

| Symposium 2011 | Abstract and Paper

• Invited PDW session speaker at American Academy of Management (AOM), 71st Annual Meeting, San Antonio (TX), August 12-16, 2011

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• Invited keynote speaker at the International Workshop on Accounting for Cooperatives hosted by Centre for Research in Business Management (Centro de Investigación en Gestión de Empresas), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Valencia, Spain, 29-30 September 2011

• Keynote speaker in the Accounting History Symposium on "Accounting in Financial Crises and the Crisis of Financial Accounting" and Scientific Committee Member of the IAAER International Conference on "Accounting Renaissance: Arising from the Crisis and Looking to the Future. Learning from Histories and Institutions," Venice, 4-5 November 2011. 

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• Invited speaker to The Unexpected Conference on "SOCIOPHYSICS: Do humans behave like atoms?", CREA, Paris, November 14-16, 2011

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• Invited speaker to the round table on "Is accounting a film or a picture ?", Deuxièmes Etats Généraux de la recherche comptable, Autorité des Normes Comptables (ANC), Paris, le 16 Décembre 2011

 

2010

• "L’entité entreprise et ses parties prenantes : une base commune pour le modèle comptable ?", Premiers Etats Généraux de la recherche comptable, Autorité des Normes Comptables (ANC), Paris, le 16 Décembre 2010

  

• (With P. Giannoccolo) "Share price formation, market exuberance and accounting design", Banque de France Foundation Research Seminar, 23 November 2010

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• Invited speaker to the International Symposium on “Comptabilité, contrôle, audit et gestion des coûts dans la globalisation et la normalisation”, Institut International des Coûts (IIC), Academy of Management (AoM), American Accounting Association (AAA), Lyon, 14 June 2010

• Invited speaker to the conference on "Evolution de la régulation bancaire et financière face à la crise", Centre de Formation Professionnelle Notariale de Paris - CFPNP, 22 November 2010

 

2009

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• (with C. Richard Baker and Q. Zhang) "Should Merger Accounting Be Reconsidered?: A Discussion Based on the Chinese Approach to Accounting for Business Combinations" (November 17, 2008). 

Abstract and paper 

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2013

• (with Reuven Avi-Yonah and Shyam Sunder) Research Netwok n° P on "Accounting, Economics, and Law", SASE Annual Meeting, Milan, 27-29 June 2013

 

Network Call for Papers | SASE Netwok Program

Abstract and paper

• Panel Organization on "Past and Future of Prudential Regulation in Europe in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis", 2013 CES Conference - 20th International Conference of Europeanists: "Crisis & Contingency: States of (In)Stability", Council for European Studies, Amsterdam, 25-27 June 2013

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• Presentation at "Prudence vs. Liquidity Alternative Approaches to Money, Finance and Accounting," Bocconi University, Milan, 1 March 2013

• Presentation at Eastern Economic Association 39th Annual Conference, New York, 9-11 May 2013  

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• Presentation at the 17 IRSPM Conference: 'Public sector responses to global crisis. New challenges for politics and public management', Prague, 10-12 April 2013

| Conference website | Abstract and paper

• Presentation at the Innovation in Public Finance - IPF 2013 Conference, Milan, 17-19 June 2013

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• Presentation at 18th Annual Workshop on the Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA 2013), June 20-22, 2013, Reykjavik University, Iceland

| Conference website | Abstract and paper

• Presentation at 14th Biennial CIGAR Conference on "In the Eye of the Storm: Public Sector Accounting, Financial Crisis and Austerity", University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2nd - 3rd September 2013

| Conference Website | Abstract and paper

• Presentation at the 25th Annual EAEPE Conference 2013, Université Paris Nord (University of Paris 13, Campus Bobigny), Paris, 7- 9 November 2013

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2012

• (with Reuven Avi-Yonah and Shyam Sunder) Research Netwok n° P on "Accounting, Economics, and Law", SASE Annual Meeting, Boston, 28-30 June 2012

Network Call for Papers | SASE Netwok Program

 

• American Accounting Association, 2012 Annual Meeting - "Seeds of Innovation", Washington D.C., 4-8 August 2012

 

Panel on "Accounting and the Principle of Prudence: Perspectives and Implications"

Panel on "The Move towards Fair Value Accounting: Evolutionary Perspectives"

Panel on "How to do accounting standard-setting all around the world: Global, national, transnational?"

 

• "Accounting and Financial Stability: Simulation and Experimental Analyses", paper presentation at the W.E.H.I.A. 2012, ESHIA, 17th Annual Workshop on Economic Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, University of Pantheon-Assas, Paris, June 21-23, 2012

| Conference website

• Workhsop Organiser on Public Sector Accounting and Finances, Paris, 4 October 2012

 

2011

• (with Reuven Avi-Yonah and Shyam Sunder) Research Netwok n° P on "Accounting, Economics, and Law", Inaugural Event, SASE Annual Meeting, Madrid, 23-25 June 2011 

| Submissions  

Network Call | Network Conference Call on Regulated Industries

SASE 2011 Network Program

 

• American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, Denver, August 6 - August 10, 2011:

Panel Session on "Assets/liabilities versus revenues/expenses accounting: current issues and implications for accounting, economics and law"

Panel Session on ".Accounting model and regulation: Lessons from Recent Accounting History"

Invited Panelist in "Accounting in History: Moving Forward by Looking Back"

 

• "Rethinking Economic Policies in a Landscape of Heterogeneous Agents," International POLHIA Conference, Catholic University of Milan, October 13-15, 2011

  

• (Innovation and Regulation Chair) "Innovation in Network Industries: Accounting, economic and regulatory implications," International Workshop, Institut Telecom, Paris, 16 March 2011

• (with P. Giannoccolo) "Complementarities, R&D-related intangible resources and the corporate accounting system: an economic map for welfare-improving industry regulation", ENEF Meeting on "Strategy & Economics of the Firm", Strasbourg, 7-8 Septembre 2011

Abstract and paper

• (with P. Giannoccolo) "Complementarities, R&D-related intangible resources and the corporate accounting system: an economic map for welfare-improving industry regulation," EAEPE Annual Conference 2011, Vienna, Austria, October 27th – 30th, 2011

Abstract and paper

• (with P. Giannoccolo) "Share price formation, market exuberance and accounting design", First Cost International Conference on "Remodeling finance and its governance in times of uncertainty", University of Paris 8, May, 12-14, 2011

Cost Network | Conference Website

• (with M. Soverchia) "Accounting Rules for the European Communities: A Theoretical Analysis", 13th Biennial CIGAR Conference, Ghent, 9-10 June 2011

| Conference Website

 

2010

• (with Reuven Avi-Yonah and Shyam Sunder) “Evolutionary Regulation: Rethinking the Role of Regulation in Economy and Society”, Mini-Conference n° 4 for the 22nd SASE Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 24-26 June 2010 

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• (with Thomas Clarke) Corporate Governance Track on "Corporate Governance and the Crisis of Financialisation", EURAM, Rome, 19th - 22nd May 2010

Program |  

• American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, July 31-August 4, 2010:

Organisation of a special panel on "Accounting and the financial crisis"

Presentation of "Share price formation, financial instability and accounting design" (co-authored with P. Giannoccolo)

• (with P. Giannoccolo & A. Reberioux) "Financial Disclosure and the Board: A Case for Non-Independent Directors",  DIME Workshop on "Innovation and the Design of Financial Systems", Paris, 4 March 2010

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• Seminar on “Une finance sans intérêts : Paradigmes traditionnels et perspectives nouvelles", Université Bocconi de Milan - Institut d'Etudes Avancées (IEA) de Nantes, Nantes, 12-13 March 2010

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• EconomiX Seminar (University Paris X Nanterre),  La juste valeur et la stabilité financière (Fair value and financial stability), 11 February 2010

• (with Michela Soverchia) "Reforming the European Union Financial Disclosure: A Theoretical Analysis of the "New" Accounting Rules", 32^nd EGPA Annual Conference, PSG XIV on EU Administration and Multi-Level Governance, Toulouse, 8-10 September, 2010

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• (with Michela Soverchia) "Accounting Rules for the European Communities: A Theoretical Analysis", 6^th EIASM international conference on “Accounting, auditing and management in public sector reforms”, Copenhagen, 1-3 September, 2010

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• MODAV 2010, 7th International Accounting Conference (AACF 2010), Istanbul, 14-15 October 2010

(With P. Giannoccolo) "Accounting Lighthouse in Share Market Dynamics"

 (with C.R. Baker and Zhang Q.) "Should Merger Accounting Be Reconsidered?: A Discussion Based on the Chinese Approach to Accounting for Business Combinations"

• International Conference on “Innovation, Governance and Finance: Current Issues and New Challenges”, MSH-PN, Paris, 8-9 November 2010

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• (with P. Giannoccolo) ‘Share Price Formation, Share Market Exuberance and Accounting Design’, Nordic Conference on Financial Accounting, Copenhagen, 25-26 November 2010

  Conference | Abstract and paper

• (With A. Reberioux) "The Governance of Intangibles: Rethinking financial reporting and the Board of Directors", Performance and Governance JMG Workshop, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, 10-11 September 2010

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2009 

• SASE Mini-conference on "Overcoming financialisation and its crisis: ideas from and suggestions for accounting, economics, and law", 21st SASE Meeting, Paris, 16-18 July 2009

Program  | SASE 

•  International Conference on Financial Institutions, Organisations, and Technologies, "Should financial crises keep happening? Understanding and remedying the current impasse", Hammamet, Tunisia, 6-7 July, 2009

   

  Call For Papers  

• American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, New York, August 1-5, 2009:

 

Organisation of a special panel on "Social and Moral Norms: Institutional perspectives on accounting, financial markets and the firm"

 

Presentation of "Should Merger Accounting Be Reconsidered?: A Discussion Based on the Chinese Approach to Accounting for Business Combinations" (co-authored with C.R. Baker and Zhang Q.)

 

Presentation of "The Governance of Intangibles: Rethinking Financial Reporting and the Board of Directors" (coauthored with A. Rebérioux)

 

• (with Pierpaolo Giannoccolo) Accounting Lighthouse in Share Market Dynamics: A Theoretical Model of Share Price Formation with Dual Informational Structure, 7th PARIS FINANCE INTERNATIONAL MEETING, Paris, December 17-18th 2009

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• (with Pierpaolo Giannoccolo & Antoine Reberioux): "Financial Disclosure and the Board: Is Independence of Directors Always Efficient?", 3° Forum of Regulation, Paris, 2-3 December 2009

• "Capital budgeting under relational contracting: optimal ranking and duration criteria for schemes of concession, project-financing and public-private partnership", EGPA 2009, PSG XII: Public Sector Financial Management, Malta, 2-5 September

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• ENEF 2009 Meeting, “Institutional complementarities and the firm: financialisation, globalisation and beyond”, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme - Paris Nord, 17-19 September 2009 

  Call for Papers  |  ENEF 

• (With A. Reberioux) "The Governance of Intangibles: Rethinking financial reporting and the Board of Directors", Euram 2009 - Renaissance & Renewal in Management Studies, Liverpool, 11 - 14 May; Best paper proceedings from the EURAM "Boards and Governance track" in Liverpool 2009, p. 20-45

Conference  |  Abstract and paper 

• (With C.R. Baker and Zhang Q.) "An international institutional comparative perspective of the Chine approach to accounting for business combinations", Asian Academic Accounting Association (4A) 10th Annual Meeting, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, 15-18 November 2009 

Conference 

• International Conference on the Governance of Civil Society Organisations, Cnam, 7-8 September 2009

   

• "Should business and non-business accounting be different? A comparative perspective applied to the new French government accounting standards", 12th Comparative International Governmental Accounting Research (CIGAR) Conference: "New Challenges for Public Sector Accounting", Modena, Italy, May 28th-29th, 2009.

CIGAR Network || Abstract and paper 

• (with C. Richard Baker e Zhang Qiusheng) "An international comparative analysis of accounting standards for business combinations", Association Francophone de Comptabilité (AFC) 2009, Strasbourg, 27 - 29 May.

   

• (with I. Chambost) " Gouvernance, transparence et encastrement cognitif des marchés financiers : Le cas des analystes financiers ", Premières Journées Internationales de recherche en gestion du Morbihan : " Gouvernance, information comptable et financière ", Université de Bretagne Sud,  2-3 April 2009, Vannes, France.

Conference Web Site 

• Presentation to Accounting Section VHB / International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER) Joint Conference 2009: "Financial & Management Accounting, Auditing & Corporate Governance", February 5-7, 2009, LMU Munich, Germany

   

   

• (with Laurence Gialdini and Marie Helene Bihr) Presentation to EABIS 2009 "The Role and Purpose of Business in Society: Challenges and Issues for Global and Corporate Governance", 8th Annual Colloquium, 21-22 September 2009, Barcelona

 

• (with C. Richard Baker and Zhang Qiusheng) "An international comparative institutional analysis of the Chinese approach to accounting for business combinations", CERDI & CCES (Fudan University, Shanghai), Clermont-Ferrand, 22-23 October 2009 

 

 

2008 

• International Conference on "Governing the Business Enterprise: Ownership, Institutions, Society", CNAM, Paris, 22 and 23 May 2008

  Conference Web Site | Proceedings 

• (with Antoine Reberioux) Presentation of "The Governance of Intangibles: Rethinking Financial Reporting and the Board of Directors", EAEPE Conference in Rome, 6-9 November 2008

• Presentation to the EGPA Conference 2008, "Innovation in the Public Sector", Rotterdam, 3-6 September 2008

 

Abstract and paper 

• Presentation to the ENEF Meeting 2008, "Knowledge, Organisation and the Firm", Pisa, 11-12 September 2008

• Presentation(s) to the "20th Asian Pacific Conference (APC) on international accounting issues", Paris, 9-12 November 2008

• (with Laurence Gialdini and Marie Helene Bihr) Presentation to RIODD, Esdes, Lyon, 5 June 2008

• (with Laurence Gialdini and Marie Helene Bihr) Presentation to CIGE2008, Bordeaux, 5 June 2008

• Presentation to the CPA Conference 2008, "Should Merger Accounting Be Reconsidered? : A Discussion Of The Chinese Approach To Accounting For Business Combinations", 25-26 April 2008 (with C.R. Baker and Q. Zhang)

• Speech to the 3rd Conference on "Decision Making", University of Paris Dauphine, 8 February 2008 

Program | Proceedings 

• Speech to the ENTPE, "The French Position on Public Sector Reform in the International Context", Lyon, 23 January 2008 

• Special Conference on "Accounting for Social Responsibility", ADERSE, Grenoble, 10 January 2008 

Program 

 

2007

• (with R. Baker and Qiusheng Zhang) Speech at the AAA meeting, Chicago IL, August 8, 2007, presenting a paper on the international comparative analysis of accounting standards for business combinations 

 

• Speech at the EURAM conference, Paris, May 18, 2007, presenting a paper on the assessment of new French government accounting standards and conceptual framework (LOLF)

Conference  |   Session Program

• (MATRICE) Convener of a conference on "Public- Private Partnerships : Economic Analysis, Accounting, Budgetary and Financial Stakes. Applications to Healthcare Services", University of Paris IX Dauphine, January 26, 2007 (with Frédéric Marty).

Matrice Conferences and Proceedings 

 

2006

•  (MATRICE) Convener of a conference on "Public French Accounting Standards: Principles and conceptual framework, new stakes", University of Paris IX Dauphine, February 27 2006

    Matrice Conferences and Proceedings | My Speech (PDF) 

• (with T. Suzuki) Convener of a special session devoted to "the unexplored implications of fair value and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)" in the 18° meeting SASE, Trier, Germany, June 30 - July 2 2006

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• (with M. Dietrich) Convener of a special session devoted to "The Firm: Economics, Accounting, and Law" during the next meeting EAEPE, Istanbul, Turkey, November 2-4 2006 

Istanbul Conference 2006 | Program | Book Presentation Conference 

• Speech at Nice University, ENEF Workshop, on "The Firm as an Entity, the Accounting System and the Governance Issue", September 7, 2006.

• Speech at Aix-Marseille University on "Accounting Principles and conceptual framework of the new central government accounting standards", June 12, 2006.

• Member of the international committee of experts for the project “Identifying the Key Drivers of ‘Good’ Corporate Governance and the Appropriateness of Policy Responses” commissioned by the UK Department of Trade and Industry. 

  Research project (King's College London) 

 

2005

• (with E. Chiapello) Convener of a special session  devoted to Accounting and Economics in the 17° meeting SASE, Budapest, July 1st 2005

Speech (PDF) | Abstract and Paper (PDF) | Session (PDF) 

• (Matrice) Speech at Nice University, Matrice Workshop, on "Public and Business Accounting modes", June 9 2005.

• Seminar on The Firm as an Entity and Accounting, Control, and Governance issues, EM Lyon - IFGE, March 31 2005

 

 

 

 

2010	H.D.R. (Post-Doctoral Thesis) - Accounting, Economic, and Legal Theory and Analysis of  Institutions and Organisations, University of Paris I "Panthéon Sorbonne" (IAE de Paris)
2000-2003	Ph.D. (with highest distinction) - Accounting, Economics and Finance of the business firm, Universities of Brescia and Lyon, with final thesis (December 5 2003) devoted to the economic nature of the firm between economic theories and accounting

1999-2000	M.Sc. (with high distinction) - Economic Analysis and History of Institutions and Organisations, University of Lyon II, with final thesis (September 6 2000) devoted to the foundations of the business economics and accounting Italian tradition, now revised and published in Italian language by CEDAM - (link)
1990-1995	M.Sc. (Summa Sine Laude), Mathematical and Quantitative Economics (DES), L. Bocconi University, Milan 1995, specialisation in accounting and economics of organisations, with final thesis (Tesi di Laurea) devoted to accounting and economics of non-business entities in education

1995-1999

Activities of research and teaching for some leading Italian institutions; junior manager in "International Finance and project financing"  for a leading Italian bank

 

 

 

 

 

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http://ssrn.com/author=394847 (my SSRN page, Social Science Research Network Paper Collection)

www.sase.org 

http://www.iias-iisa.org/ (International Institute of Administrative Sciences, EGPA) 

http://www.enef.group.shef.ac.uk/ (European Network on the Economics of the Firm)

Matrice (Matrice Network)

Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review (Journal of the Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics)

 

www.free.grisoft.com (free antivirus and antispyware)

 

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