Yaniv Konchitchki
Associate Professor | Distinguished Teaching Fellow | Founder and Faculty Director, Berkeley Fintech Program | Lead Fintech Researcher, Wells Fargo Lab for Banking & Financial Services | UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES
Pioneering research on financial-based solutions to world's grand challenges
Areas of Expertise (13)
Inflation; GDP; Interest Rates
Financial-based Solutions to World’s Grand Challenges
Interdisciplinary Capital Markets
Financial Reporting
Forecasting Firm/Industry/Macro Performance
Financial Technology (Fintech), Innovation, and Related Decision Making
Macro-Accounting
Financial Statement Analysis
Technology/Information Systems
Corporate Transparency
Macroeconomics
Valuation
Asset Pricing
About
Prof. Konchitchki is an expert in the interdisciplinary links between capital markets, finance, macroeconomy, financial & information systems technology, and financial reporting.
He is a full-time tenured associate professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. His PhD is from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and he also holds a CPA license and an MSc from Stanford’s Statistics. Before receiving his PhD, he worked a number of years as a CPA and Senior Financial Analysis Expert for PwC as well as an Economist.
He has vast experience from academic and practitioner perspectives, and he is the founding father of Macro-Accounting, a current research-active field that he has helped establish and coined its term since his PhD days at Stanford. His current research focus is on establishing a new interdisciplinary research field that he calls “Financial-based Solutions to World’s Grand Challenges,” which is benefiting economics, finance, accounting, and related disciplines.
His work focuses on the modeling and resolution of real-life problems and world’s grand challenges with the goal of enhancing decision making. Overall, his research expertise is in corporate financial reporting and analysis, interdisciplinary capital markets, valuation, financial technology (Fintech) & innovation, and macroeconomics.
His work is widely recognized internationally, nationally, and across top schools through awards/honors such as WORLD’S TOP 40 UNDER 40, 2019 NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO ACCOUNTING LITERATURE AWARD, FAVORITE MBA PROFESSORS OF THE CLASS OF 2021, American Accounting Association’s Best Paper Award, UC Berkeley’s Bakar Faculty Fellow, Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Hellman Fellow for Distinguished Research Excellence, Schwabacher Fellow, (more than once) Cheit Award for Distinguished Teaching Excellence, Thompson Teaching & Learning Innovation Award, Stanford’s Jaedicke Merit Award for Outstanding Academic Achievements at Stanford’s GSB, Tel Aviv University’s Special Program for Outstanding Merits & School of Economics’ Research Prize, among others.
His research was published in top-tier academic & professional journals, and he was invited to present at several world’s top academic institutions, hedge funds, investment institutions, & national security intelligence forums (e.g., U.S. Cyber Command).
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Education (4)
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business: PhD, Business Administration
Dissertation on Macro-Accounting (inflation) Dissertation Chair: Prof. Mary Barth Jaedicke Merit Award for Outstanding Academic Performance at Stanford GSB's PhD Program
Stanford University, Department of Statistics: MSc, Statistics
Emphasis on Math courses
Tel Aviv University: MA; BA, Economics and Accounting
Emphasis on Math and Macroeconomics Completed all courses required for PhD in Economics
Certified Public Accountant: Licensed CPA
Links (13)
- Personal Website
- New Research: UNDISCLOSED MATERIAL INFLATION RISK
- Berkeley Fintech -- Information
- Download Bio (PDF)
- Best Paper Award
- World's Top 40 Under 40
- Author Interview: Macroeconomic Effects on Firms
- Favorite MBA Professors of the Class of 2021
- 2019 Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award
- Schwabacher Fellowship
- New Research
- P&Q's 40 Under 40
- New Research: U.S. Import Tariffs and Domestic Corporate Performance
Honors & Awards (13)
NATIONAL: 2019 NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO ACCOUNTING LITERATURE AWARD (of the American Accounting Association and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)
“Award given…to published research work which has withstood a rigorous process of screening and scrutiny based on certain criteria, such as uniqueness and potential magnitude of contribution to accounting education, practice and/or future accounting research, breadth of potential interest, originality and innovative content, clarity and organization of exposition and soundness and appropriateness of methodology.”
NATIONAL: BEST PAPER AWARD (of the American Accounting Association)
“This annual award honors the paper that best reflects the tradition of academic scholarship in financial accounting and explores research that is relevant to problems facing the accounting profession and standard-setters.” For his research titled "Cost of Capital and Earnings Transparency." E.g.: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/yaniv/2014_AAA_BestPaperAward_AAAPressRelease.pdf
INTERNATIONAL: "Favorite MBA Professors Of The Class Of 2021"
Poets & Quants, see: https://poetsandquants.com/2021/08/01/favorite-mba-professors-of-the-class-of-2021/2
INTERNATIONAL: "World's 40 Under 40"
Featured in Fortune, Haas, P&Q. See: http://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/yaniv-konchitchki-makes-worlds-top-40-under-40 https://poetsandquants.com/2014/02/12/best-prof-yaniv-konchitchki http://fortune.com/2014/02/12/the-40-best-b-school-professors-under-40
UC BERKELEY: Hellman Fellow Fund Award for Distinguished Excellence in Research
Selected from across the university as a “Most Promising Assistant Professor.”
UC BERKELEY: Distinguished Teaching Fellow; Earl F. Cheit Award for Distinguished Excellence in Teaching (awarded more than once)
"Highest teaching award bestowed annually upon instructors at Berkeley Haas." (Awarded for Core MBA Courses on Financial Reporting)
UC BERKELEY: Schwabacher Fellow
"The Berkeley Haas Executive Committee voted this honor on the basis of 'outstanding research, exceptional departmental service, unusual scholarly growth, or some combination thereof.'" E.g.: https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/haas-names-new-schwabacher-fellows
UC BERKELEY: Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow
“A most positive signal for the years to come, the fellowship honors Haas faculty members with a record of accomplishment and a very bright future.”
UC BERKELEY: Club Six Member
Awarded for Teaching Excellence in Core MBA (several teaching years at Haas)
STANFORD GSB: Jaedicke Merit Award for Outstanding Academic Performance in the PhD Program
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business Doctoral Fellowships
USC MARSHALL: Evan C. Thompson Teaching & Learning Innovation Award
For Core MBA Teaching Excellence
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY: Annual Research Prize of the School of Economics (2000)
In addition: - Several awards for excellence, including full tuition scholarships and stipends during each year of studies. - Selected to University’s Special Program for Outstanding Students. - Magna Cum Laude.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: Research Grant
Center for International Business Education and Research
Positions Held (1)
At Haas since 2011
2017 – Present, Associate Professor (tenured), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley 2011 – 2017, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Media Appearances (17)
Manila Jockey Club [MJC] suspended for failure to submit financial statements
Philstar Global online
2021-08-03
A study co-authored by Assoc. Prof. Yaniv Konchitchki found that missing SEC filing deadlines has a short-term negative effect on a firm's stock price. On average, late reporters also performed poorly for the following year.
Favorite MBA Professors Of The Class Of 2021
Poets & Quants online
2021-08-01
Olaséni Bello, MBA 21, named Assoc. Prof. Yaniv Konchitchki, faculty director of the Center for Financial Reporting & Management and the Berkeley Exec Ed Financial Technology (Fintech) Program, as his favorite professor at Berkeley Haas. “While corporate financial analysis and reporting may cause some eyes to gloss over, Yaniv’s unique ability to dissect the traditional jargon while applying concepts to real time and emerging corporate failures made this an exceptional class. If you come to Haas, take Yaniv!” David Bolívar, also MBA 21, named Assoc. Prof. Juliana Schroeder as his favorite. “Juliana truly cares about her students and provides insightful feedback by offering one-on-one consultations to negotiate job offers. In my case, she also supported me with a strategy to handle the negotiation with a complicated tenant at my apartment in Lima.”
Faculty Honors: Five New Awards in Summer 2019
UC Berkeley online
2019-08-28
Several Haas faculty have recently been honored for their research and teaching...
AICPA Honors Three with Education Awards
Accounting Today online
2019-08-15
The American Institute of CPAs recognized three academics for exemplary teaching and research contributions during the annual American Accounting Association meeting, held this week in San Francisco....
Profs. Receive Prestigious Research Award
American Accounting Association online
2019-06-14
Haas professors have won the 2019 Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award from the the American Accounting Association. The award has been given for research work evaluated for its uniqueness and potential magnitude of contribution to accounting education, practice and/or future accounting research; breadth of potential interest; originality and innovation, clarity and organization of exposition; and soundness and appropriateness of methodology.
AICPA-Sponsored Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award
American Accounting Association online
2018-08-08
Lakewood Ranch, FL - August 14, 2019 - The American Accounting Association (AAA) would like to congratulate Yaniv Konchitchki and Panos N. Patatoukas as the recipients of the 2019 Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award for their works entitled, "Accounting Earnings and Gross Domestic Product," featured in the February 2014 issue of the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and "Taking the Pulse of the Real Economy Using Financial Statement Analysis: Implications for Macro Forecasting and Stock Valuation," featured in the March 2014 issue of The Accounting Review.
Shares Drop When Cos. File Late: Study
CFO online
2017-11-29
Companies’ share prices plummet when they file Form NT (“non-timely”), despite stated expectations to meet their deadlines, according to a paper published by professors Eli Bartov of New York University and Yaniv Konchitchki of the University of California at Berkeley in the December issue of the American Accounting Association’s journal Accounting Horizons.
How Missing SEC Filing Deadlines Affects a Company’s Stock Value
Columbia Law School - Blue Sky Blog online
2017-11-27
Investors, hedge funds, regulators, banks, and attorneys want to know: What really happens when a company misses a regulatory deadline? In a new paper, we offer theory and quantitative analysis of the consequences of missing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulatory deadlines for filing quarterly (Form 10-Q) and annual (Form 10-K) financial statements. Timely disclosure of financial statement information is a critical requirement for firms and well-functioning capital markets. Late filings delay disclosures that help investors make informed investment decisions and, as a result, increase information asymmetry and trading costs. Late filings may also trigger costly regulatory penalties and covenant violations...
Prof. Yaniv Konchitchki Wins American Accounting Association Best Paper Award
Haas School of Business, online
2014-08-28
Berkeley, Calif. — Yaniv Konchitchki, assistant professor in the Accounting Group at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, has received a prestigious 2014 Best Paper Award from the American Accounting Association (AAA), the world’s largest community of accountants in academia. The winning paper, “Earnings Transparency and Cost of Capital,” recently published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, was coauthored with Mary E. Barth (Stanford) and Wayne R. Landsman (University of North Carolina). The trio received the Best Paper Award on August 4, 2014, at the American Accounting Association’s Annual Meeting, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, held in Atlanta, GA. The annual award honors the paper that best reflects the tradition of academic scholarship in financial accounting and explores research that is relevant to problems facing the accounting profession and standard-setters.
Best Paper Award - Announcement
American Accounting Association online
2014-08-15
Sarasota, FL, August 15, 2014 -- The American Accounting Association (AAA) is pleased to congratulate Mary E. Barth, Yaniv Konchitchki, and Wayne R. Landsman as recipients of the AAA’s 2014 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Best Paper Award for their study, “Earnings Transparency and Cost of Capital,” recently published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics. This AAA award was presented to the authors in the form of a monetary prize and engraved plaques on Monday, August 4 at the 2014 AAA Annual Meeting held in Atlanta, Georgia.
Haas Names New Schwabacher Fellows
UC Berkeley Haas online
2014-05-12
Associate Professor Nicolae Gârleanu (left) and Assistant Professor Yaniv Konchitchki have been awarded Schwabacher Fellowships by the Haas Executive Committee, a panel that includes the dean and senior faculty. The fellowship is the highest honor that Haas bestows upon up-and-coming faculty stars. It consists of a small unrestricted cash award, a research grant, and a modest instructional point credit.
Exploring Cross-Sectional Effects of Inflation
Enterprising Investor online
2014-02-26
The US generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) do not require adjustments for inflation, so financial statements are reported in nominal terms. This struck Yaniv Konchitchki as problematic. In his article “Accounting and the Macroeconomy: The Case of Aggregate Price-Level Effects on Individual Stocks,” published in the November/December 2013 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal, Konchitchki examines stock-valuation effects of aggregate price-level changes on individual companies. He shares his thoughts about his work in the latest installment of our FAJ author interview series.
Yaniv Konchitchki Makes “World’s Top 40 Under 40”
Poets & Quants online
2014-02-23
Haas Professor Yaniv Konchitchki was named as a “World’s Top 40 Under 40” lauding the best young business professors from around the globe. Konchitchki joined the Berkeley-Haas faculty in 2011. Before receiving a PhD from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, he was a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Senior Financial Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as well as a Senior Investment Expert at the Securities Authority.
The 40 Most Outstanding B-School Profs Under 40 In The World
Poets & Quants online
2014-02-12
Business school professors at top institutions are under intense pressure. And it comes from all sides–the publish-or-perish demands of academia, the university administrators wrapped up in rankings, and ambitious students determined to squeeze every cent out of a $100,000+ investment.
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Google online
2016-05-29
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Making a Case for Transparent Corporate Accounting Information
Phys.org online
2013-06-17
A new study by accounting professor Yaniv Konchitchki finds greater transparency in firms' earnings has a positive effect on the bottom line.
Trading PEAD: 16 Stocks With Earnings Surprises Over 50%
Seeking Alpha online
2011-05-05
The counter-argument is found in a November 8 2010 abstract entitled On the Predictability of Analyst Forecast Errors and the Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift, by Yaniv Konchitchki, Lou, Gil and Ronnie Sadka. They attribute much of the gain to predictable error, momentum and other variables that lead to a risk-based explanation of the phenomenon rather than sole investor under-reaction.
Selected Papers & Publications (13)
Inflation and Nominal Financial Reporting: Implications for Performance and Stock Prices
The Accounting Review
Yaniv Konchitchki
2011
Event Study Methodologies in Information Systems Research
International Journal of Accounting Information Systems
Yaniv Konchitchki and Daniel E. O'Leary
2011 [Methodologies for interdisciplinary capital markets research in the interface of finance, technology/information systems, and financial reporting]
Accounting Research: Notes and Perspectives
University of Southern California Figueroa Press
Yaniv Konchitchki
2012
Accounting and the Macroeconomy: The Case of Aggregate Price-Level Effects on Individual Stocks
Financial Analysts Journal
Yaniv Konchitchki
2013
Capital Markets Valuation and Accounting Performance of Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) Award Winners
Decision Support Systems
Mark L. DeFond, Yaniv Konchitchki, Jeff L. McMullin, Daniel E. O'Leary
2013
Accounting Earnings and Gross Domestic Product
Journal of Accounting and Economics
Yaniv Konchitchki and Panos N. Patatoukas
2014 [Awarded the NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO ACCOUNTING LITERATURE AWARD of the American Accounting Association and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants]
Cost of Capital and Earnings Transparency
Journal of Accounting and Economics
Mary E. Barth, Yaniv Konchitchki, Wayne R. Landsman
2013 [Awarded the BEST PAPER AWARD of the American Accounting Association]
Accounting in Business - IFRS Updated
Tel Aviv University Dyonon Press
Nissim Aranya, Michael Yampuler, Yaniv Konchitchki
2014 [Textbook for MBA and Accounting undergrad programs. Hebrew]
Taking the Pulse of the Real Economy Using Financial Statement Analysis: Implications for Macro Forecasting and Stock Valuation
The Accounting Review
Yaniv Konchitchki and Panos N. Patatoukas
2014 [Awarded the NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO ACCOUNTING LITERATURE AWARD of the American Accounting Association and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants]
Accounting Valuation and Cost of Capital Dynamics: Theoretical and Empirical Macroeconomic Aspects. Discussion of Callen
Abacus
Yaniv Konchitchki
2016 [In addition to discussing some theory aspects of accounting-based valuation, this paper provides a review, extensions, and future directions for the area that Prof. Konchitchki has termed as Macro-Accounting and helped founded it as a growing research field.]
Accounting-Based Downside Risk, Cost of Capital, and the Macroeconomy
Review of Accounting Studies
Yaniv Konchitchki, Yan Luo, Mary L. Z. Ma, Feng Wu
2016
SEC Filings, Regulatory Deadlines, and Capital Market Consequences
Accounting Horizons
Eli Bartov and Yaniv Konchitchki
2017
Interest Rate Volatility, the Yield Curve, and the Macroeconomy
Journal of Financial Economics
Scott Joslin and Yaniv Konchitchki
2018
Teaching (8)
Financial Accounting
Full-Time MBA Program (Core Course)
Berkeley Fintech: Frameworks, Applications, and Strategies
Faculty Director, Berkeley Executive Education
Financial Reporting
Evening MBA Program (Core Course)
Highlights from Financial Accounting Practice and Research
Berkeley Executive Programs in Management
Doctoral Seminar in Accounting Research
PhD-Level
Financial Reporting and Decision Making for Real Life Success
UGBA 127 and MBA 296
Research Seminar in Financial Accounting
PhD-Level
Macro-Accounting/Interdisciplinary Capital Markets Research
PhD-Level
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