2015-16 IGM Year in Review

21 JUAN CARLOS SUÁREZ SERRATO MAY 16–JUNE 10, 2016 Assistant Professor of Economics Duke University Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato is a public economist whose current work focuses on the effects of firm taxation on firm location and investment. Other topics of research include public economics, entrepreneurship, and experimental economics. He is an assistant professor at Duke University and received his PhD from University of California, Berkeley in 2012. Prior to joining Duke, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). During his visit, Suárez Serrato presented his paper, “Notching R&D Investments with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China,” at the applied economics seminar at Booth. He also met with many faculty at Booth and at the Harris School of Public Policy. Rodrigo Verdi is an associate professor of accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management and earned his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Verdi has broad interest in financial accounting research. His past research investigates the economic consequences of financial reporting quality to investment efficiency and to the cost of capital. He also has studied the interaction between accounting information, voluntary disclosure, and market efficiency. During his visit, Verdi presented his paper, “Inter-Temporal Variation in the Externalities of Peer-Firm Disclosures,” at the accounting workshop at Booth, and meet with faculty and PhD students at the accounting department. RODRIGO VERDI MAY 23–JUNE 3, 2016 Associate Professor of Accounting MIT