Matthew Shaffer

Assistant Professor of Accounting
Building
ACC
Room / Office
114
Matthew Shaffer is a first-year assistant professor at the USC Marshall School of Business. He received his doctoral degree from Harvard Business School and his bachelor’s degree from Yale. His research centers on corporate governance, valuation, and the market for corporate control. His work has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, and presented at leading conferences in accounting, finance, and law. This year, he is teaching the core undergraduate introductory accounting course, BUAD 280.

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Matthew Shaffer () ""Why Are We Doing This? The Meaning of Financial Accounting" ,".
Matthew Shaffer, Jason Lee () ""Why Value the Enterprise en route to Equity? Valuation Practice in M&A" ,".
Matthew Shaffer () "Are Third-Party Fundamental Valuations Relevant in Public-Company Takeovers? ,".
Matthew Shaffer, Katherine Bruere () ""Why do M&A Advisors use Trailing Multiples? Accounting Reports as Arbiters of Value" ,".
Richard Sloan, Suzanne Burzillo, Matthew Shaffer () ""Who Uses Corporate Sustainability Reports?" ,".
Matthew Shaffer () ""Which Multiples Matter in M&A? An Overview" ,".
Matthew Shaffer, Charles Wang, Akash Chattopadhyay () "Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior ,"  Journal of Financial Economics  (In press.), https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304405X19301783.