STOUMBOS Robert

Robert Stoumbos is a faculty member in the Department of Accounting and Management Control at ESSEC Business School, where he has held the Chair of Excellence in Financial Reporting since 2022. From 2017 to 2022, he was an Assistant Professor at Columbia Business School in New York. His expertise encompasses the use of accounting in capital markets, the impact of behavioral considerations on financial reporting, and the historical landscape of financial accounting before regulatory intervention. Robert earned his Ph.D. from Yale University and worked as a Certified Public Accountant at Ernst & Young prior to his academic career.

• 2017 : Doctor of Philosophy, Other, Accounting (Yale University, United States of America)
• 2017 : Doctor of Philosophy, Other, Accounting (Yale University, United States of America)

Full-time academic appointments

• 2022 - Present : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2022 - Present : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)

Other Academic Appointments

• 2017 - 2022 : Assistant Professor (Columbia Business School, United States of America)
• 2017 - 2022 : Assistant Professor (Columbia Business School, United States of America)

• 2021 : Midyear Best Paper Award (Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association, United States of America)
• 2021 : Midyear Best Paper Award (Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association, United States of America)

• STOUMBOS, R. (2023). The Growth of Information Asymmetry Between Earnings Announcements and Its Implications for Reporting Frequency. Management Science, 69(3), pp. 1901–1928.
• KAPONS, M.M., KELLY, P.W., STOUMBOS, R. and ZAMBRANA, R. (2023). Dividends, Trust, and Firm Value. Review of Accounting Studies, In press.
• ERTAN, A., KAROLYI, S.A., KELLY, P.W. and STOUMBOS, R. (2022). Earnings announcement return extrapolation. Review of Accounting Studies, 27(1), pp. 185-230.
• SHAO, S., STOUMBOS, R. and ZHANG, X.F. (2021). The power of firm fundamental information in explaining stock returns. Review of Accounting Studies, 26(4), pp. 1249–1289.

• STOUMBOS, R., KAPONS, M., KELLY, P. and ZAMBRANA, R. (2022). Dividends, Trust, and Firm Value. In: 2022 Brown Bag Seminar in Accounting & Taxation. Mannheim.
• STOUMBOS, R. (2022). Learning to Disclose: Disclosure Dynamics in the 1890s Streetcar Industry. In: 2022 Cambridge Accounting Research Camp. Cambridge.