Regina Wittenberg Moerman

Professor of Accounting & Accounting Circle Professor of Accounting
Building
HOH
Room / Office
815

Ph.D., The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, 2006.<br>MBA, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, 2006.<br>MBA, Finance and Accounting, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Summa Cum Laude, 1999.<br>B.A., Accounting and Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Magna Cum Laude, 1996.

Regina Wittenberg-Moerman specializes in debt contracting and trading, banking, reporting quality, and disclosure. She has held positions at the Wharton School and the Chicago Booth. Wittenberg-Moerman is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Best Paper Prize by the Journal of Accounting and Economics and Dean’s Award for Research Excellence from Marshall.
Wittenberg-Moerman is the senior editor of the Journal of Accounting Research. She also served on the editorial board of the Journal of Accounting and Economics and the Journal of Accounting Research and is a referee for numerous journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial Economics.

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Ningzhong Li, Yun Lou, Clemens Otto, Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "Accounting Quality and Debt Concentration ,"  The Accounting Review  96, 377–400.
Jung Koo Kang, Christopher Williams, Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "CDS Trading and Relationship Lending Dynamics ,"  Review of Accounting Studies  26, 258–292.
Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "Community Membership and Reciprocity in Lending: Evidence from Informal Markets ,".
Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "Contracting in the Dark: The Rise of Public-Side Lenders in the Syndicated Loan Market ,".
Regina Wittenberg Moerman, Leila Peyravan () "Institutional Dual-Holders and Managers’ Earnings Disclosure ,"  The Accounting Review.
Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "Strategic Syndication: Is Bad News Shared in Loan Syndicates ,".
Regina Wittenberg Moerman, Jung Koo Kang, Maria Loumioti () "The Harmonization of Lending Standards within Banks through Mandated Loan-Level Transparency ,"  Journal of Accounting and Economics,  72, 101386.
Gus De Franco, Florin Vasvari, Dushyantkumar Vyas, Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "Similarity in the Restrictiveness of Bond Covenants ,"  The European Accounting Reviewer  29, 665-691.
Campbell, Loumioti, Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "Making Sense of Soft Information: Interpretation Bias and Loan Quality ,"  Journal of Accounting and Economics  68, 101240.
Urooj Khan, Regina Wittenberg Moerman, Xinlei Li, Chris Williams () "The Effect of Information Opacity and Accounting Irregularities on Personal Lending Relationships: Evidence from Lender and Manager Co-migration ,"  The Accounting Review  94, 303–344.
Jae Kim, Pervin Shroff, Dushyantkumar Vyas, Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "Credit Default Swaps and Managers’ Voluntary Disclosure ,"  Journal of Accounting Research  56, 953-988.
Aytekin Ertan, Maria Loumioti, Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "Enhancing Loan Quality through Transparency: Evidence from the European Central Bank Loan Level Reporting Initiative ,"  Journal of Accounting Research  55, 877-918.
Robert Bushman, Christopher Williams, Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "The Informational Role of the Media in Private Lending ,"  Journal of Accounting Research  55, 115-152.
Hans Christensen, Valeri Nikolaev, Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "Accounting Information in Financial Contracting: The Incomplete Contract Theory Perspective ,"  Journal of Accounting Research  54, 397-435.
Ningzong Li, Florin Vasavari, Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "Dynamic Threshold Values in Earnings-Based Covenants ,"  Journal of Accounting and Economics  61, 605-629.
Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "Media Coverage and the Stock Market Valuation of TARP Participating Banks ,"  The European Accounting Review, 347-371.
Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "A Debt Analysts' View of Debt-Equity Conflicts of Interest ,"  The Accounting Review  89, 571-604.
Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "The Role of Bank Reputation in "Certifying" Future Performance Implications of Borrowers' Accounitng Numbers ,"  Journal of Accounting Research  50, 883-930.
Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "The Impact of Financial Reporting Quality on Debt Contracting: Evidence from the Internal Control Weakness Reports ,"  Journal of Accounting Research  49.
Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "Price Discovery and Dissemination of Private Information by Loan Syndicate Participants ,"  Journal of Accounting Research  48.
Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "The Informational Role of Bond Analysts ,"  Journal of Accounting Research  47.
Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "The Role of Information Asymmetry and Financial Reporting Quality in Debt Trading: Evidence from the Secondary Loan Market ,"  Journal of Accounting and Economics  46, 240-260.
Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "Assessing Credit Risk in Israel's Bankig System by Means of a Credit Scoring Model ,"  The Economic Quarterly  48.
Regina Wittenberg Moerman () "Motor Car and Petrol Taxation Policy in Israel: Analysis and Proposal for a Tax Reform ,"  The Israeli Tax Quarterly  95.