Kalin Kolev

Kalin Kolev joined the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in August 2017. Prior to that, he served on the faculty of the Yale School of Management. He received his PhD from the Stern School of Business at NYU in 2009. To date, his teaching efforts focus primarily on financial accounting and reporting. Prof. Kolev’s research interests similarly canvas topics in financial accounting and reporting, with an emphasis on recurring and non-recurring fair value measurement, drivers and effects of reporting choices, and risk.

Areas of Expertise

Financial Accounting and Reporting, with Capital Markets and Governance Overtones

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

My primary research interests relate to financial accounting and reporting. Past and ongoing work focuses on fair value accounting, special items and non-GAAP metrics, financial reporting quality, spillover effects, and risk.

PUBLICATIONS:

• “The risk-relevance of Street earnings,” with Frank Heflin and Benjamin Whipple, Review of Accounting Studies, forthcoming
• “Detecting opportunistic special items,” with Carol Cain and Sarah McVay, Management Science (Spring 2020)
• “Do investors perceive marking-to-model as marking-to-myth? Early evidence from FAS 157 disclosure,” Quarterly Journal of Finance (Spring 2019; invited)
• “Information transfer and conference calls,“ with Francois Brochet and Alina Lerman, Review of Accounting Studies (September 2018; presented at the 2017 RAST Conference)
• “Customer franchise — A hidden, yet crucial asset,” with Massimiliano Bonacchi and Baruch Lev, Contemporary Accounting Research (Fall 2015; presented at the 2012 CAR Conference)
• “Non-executive employee ownership and corporate risk-taking,” with Francesco Bova, Jacob Thomas, and Frank Zhang, The Accounting Review (January 2015)
• “SEC scrutiny and the evolution of non-GAAP reporting,” with Carol Marquardt and Sarah McVay, The Accounting Review (January 2008)

Awards

• Zicklin School of Business Teaching Excellence Award 2020
• Distinguished Reviewer (Corporate Ownership and Control) 2018, 2020
• Baruch College Doctoral Faculty 2017 –
• New Faculty Consortium 2010
• The Paul Willensky Fellowship 2008 – 2009
• NYU Doctoral Fellowship 2004 – 2008
• AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow 2006
• Beta Gamma Sigma

Education

• NYU Stern School of Business (2004 — 2009)
• BS / MS Lehigh University College of Business (1998 — 2003)

Companies

• Associate Professor Baruch College (2017)
• Assistant Professor Yale School of Management (2009)