ABOUT ME
I received my undergraduate in accounting from Pennsylvania State University - the Behrend College. I originally majored in Physics. In my free time, I engage in creative activities, go for walks, stay up entirely too late, and spend time with friends and family playing board games.
I am supported by my wonderful husband Ethan Brightbill, to whom I have been married for 4 years. We own two FELV positive cats we love (and tolerate) - Basque and Mischief.* Because of the creative nature of my husbands' career as a writer, we are not geographically constrained in job searches.
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*Sadly, we lost Bonnie to her disease.
My research uses archival and analytical methods to answer questions such as:
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Do analyst teams issue higher quality forecasts? (Dissertation)
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How do analyst teams respond to crisis events? (work in process)
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How does probability weighting influence analyst bias? (with Mark Penno and Cristi Gleason)
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How does the smoothing effect of accruals impact the kink in the earnings distribution?
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How do analysts use hedging language to improve market response to bold forecasts? (with Bradford Hepfer)
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Can disclosure regulation lead to less informative disclosures in high Gricean populations? (with Mark Penno)
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Sell-Side Financial Analysts
My research explores the effect of team-work on the quality of analyst forecasts both generally and conditionally. I also explore whether reliance on an ignorance prior can explain forecast bias.
2005 - 2010
Pennsylvania State University
Bachelors of Accounting.
Pragmatics
My research explores whether applying linguistic theories can explain differences in how the market responds to voluntary or mandatory disclosures.
Distributional Artifacts
My research explores whether the smoothing effect of accrual-based accounting can induce kinks around salient benchmarks
2013 - 2018
University of Iowa
Ph.D in Accounting (Minor Finance)