2026 Rutgers Accounting Research Conference

2026 Rutgers Accounting Research Conference

Friday, October 9, 2026

Rutgers Business School
100 Rockafeller Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854

This event is by invitation only and will be held at Rutgers Business School in Room 2071 and the 2nd Floor Lounge.

9:00 am – 9:45 am	Breakfast and Registration
9:45 am – 10:00 am	Welcome Lei Lei, Dean, Rutgers Business School Jay Soled, Distinguished Professor and AIS Department Chair
10:00 am – 10:50 am	Paper 1: The S&P 500 Profit Rule: Index Eligibility and the Allocation of Passive Capital Presenter: Shiva Rajgopal, Columbia University Moderator: Wei Chen, Rutgers Business School
10:50 am – 11:10 am	Break
11:10 am – 12:00 pm	Paper 2: Corporate Competitive Externalities of US Government Financial Assistance Presenter: Allison Koester, Georgetown University Moderator: Disen Huang Albrecht, Rutgers Business School
12:00 pm – 1:10 pm	Lunch
1:10 pm – 1:20 pm	RBS Center for Governmental Accounting Education & Research (CGAER) Yaw Mensah, RBS Vice Dean and Director, CGAER Irfan Bora, Director, Master of Governmental Accounting Program
1:20 pm – 2:10 pm	Paper 3: Surplus Reduction and Managerial Incentives in Local Governments Presenter: Amanda Beck, Georgia State University Moderator: Michael Schoderbek, Rutgers Business School
2:10 pm – 2:30 pm	Break
2:30 pm – 3:20 pm	Paper 4: Rationalizing the Overhead Myth: Donor Aversion as a Selection Mechanism Presenter: Michael Carniol, Rutgers Business School Moderator: Ryan McDonough, Rutgers Business School
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm	Reception at The Rutgers Club

Conference Organizer:
Ryan McDonough, mcdonough@business.rutgers.edu