Thomas Hemmer

Thomas Hemmer is the Houston Endowment of Accounting at Jones GSB, Rice University and is currently an Editor at The Accounting Review and a Guest Editor at Journal of Accounting Research. He has previously been on the faculties of University of Washington, UCLA, University of Chicago, London School of Economics and University of Houston.

Thomas Hemmer studies Information economics based theory with a major focus on measurement and incentive problems in organizations as well as problems pertaining to the use and valuation of employee stock options. His current research focuses on optimal dynamic relative performance evaluation and on the predicted distribution of unmanaged accounting earnings. His research has been published in journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Journal of Labor Economics and Economic Theory.

Thomas Hemmer has taught a wide variety of PhD courses on analytical economics-based accounting theory at a large number of institutions across the US, Europe and Asia. He has been an invited speaker and participant at the AAA Doctoral Colloquium in Tahoe City four times and an invited speaker at the FARS and MAS Doctoral Colloquiums as well.

Research Interests: 

-Information economics based theory with a major focus on measurement
-Incentive problems in organizations as well as problems pertaining to the use and valuation of employee stock options