Eric Weisbrod

Eric Weisbrod
  • Associate Professor
  • Accounting academic area

Contact Info

785-864-1868
Capitol Federal Hall, Room 4102
Lawrence

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Biography —

Eric Weisbrod is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Kansas School of Business. Dr. Weisbrod obtained his doctorate from Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business in 2012. Prior to joining KU in 2020, Dr. Weisbrod was on the faculty at the University of Miami's Miami Herbert Business School. He also served as an Academic Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission during 2016–17.

Dr. Weisbrod's research focuses on financial reporting, analyst forecasting, and information intermediaries in capital markets. His work examines how earnings information is produced, disseminated, and priced across different data providers, as well as market reactions to financial disclosures. He has published in top-tier journals including The Journal of Finance, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Accounting Studies.

At KU, Dr. Weisbrod teaches Advanced Financial Accounting in the Master of Accounting program and doctoral seminars in Financial Accounting Research and Replicable Business Research. He previously received the School of Business Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award at the University of Miami. Dr. Weisbrod is actively engaged in service to the academic community, including roles on the AAA Doctoral Consortium Planning Committee, the FARS Mentoring Committee, and as a reviewer for leading accounting journals. He earned his undergraduate degree in Economics-Accounting from Claremont McKenna College and was licensed as a CPA in California before going into academia (now inactive).

Education —

CPA (inactive), State of California
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2012
B.A. in Economics – Accounting, Claremont McKenna College, 2005

Selected Publications —

Weisbrod, E. (2019). Stockholders’ Unrealized Returns and the Market Reaction to Financial Disclosures. The Journal of Finance - Issue 2 | Volume 74. https://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.12743.
Weisbrod, E., Bianchi, P., Martin, D., Minutti-Meza, M., Weisbrod, E. (2019). Joint Audit Engagements and Client Tax Avoidance: Evidence from the Italian Statutory Audit Regime. The Journal of the American Taxation Association - Issue 1 | Volume 41. https://doi.org/10.2308/ATAX-52151.
Akbas, F., Markov, S., Subasi, M., Weisbrod, E. (2018). Determinants and consequences of information processing delay: Evidence from the Thomson Reuters Institutional Brokers’ Estimate System. Journal of Financial Economics - Issue 2 | Volume 127. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JFINECO.2017.11.005.
Weisbrod, E., Dhaliwal, D., Kaplan, S., Laux, R., Weisbrod, E. (2013). The Information Content of Tax Expense for Firms Reporting Losses. Journal of Accounting Research - Issue 1 | Volume 51. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-679X.2012.00466.x.