Peter R.W. Demerjian
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Phone: 404-727-2329
Fax: 404-727-6313
Email: peter.demerjian@emory.edu
Mailing Address:
Goizueta Business School
Emory University
1300 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
Biography
Peter Demerjian joined Goizueta Business School in the fall of 2007. He began his career as a trust accountant supervisor at Mellon Financial Corporation in Everett, Massachusetts. He subsequently received an MBA at the College of William & Mary and a PhD at the University of Michigan. Demerjian¿s research interest is focused in the area of contracting; particularly how accounting standards and discretion in financial reporting affect the structure of debt contracts and the use of accounting-based covenants. He has also examined how accounting data can be used to measure managerial ability.
Publications
- Accounting Standards and Debt Covenants: Has the Balance Sheet Approach Led to a Decline in the Use of Balance Sheet Covenants? Journal of Accounting and Economics, forthcoming.
- Quantifying Managerial Ability: A New Measure and Validity Tests (with B. Lev and S. McVay), Management Science, forthcoming, July 2011
- Managerial Ability and Earnings Quality (with B. Lev, M. Lewis, and S. McVay), The Accounting Review, 3rd Round Revise & Resubmit February 2012. (Winner AAA Western Regional Meeting 2010 Best Paper Award, FEA Conference 2010 paper).
Working Papers
- Financial Covenants, Credit Risk, and the Resolution of Uncertainty," February 2010.
Areas of Specialization
- Financial Accounting
- Debt contracting
- Debt covenants
- Managerial ability
Achievements and Honors
- American Accounting Association
- Beta Gamma Sigma
Memberships and Activities
- American Accounting Association
- Beta Gamma Sigma
Education
| 2007 | PhD | Business Administration (accounting) | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor |
| 2002 | MBA | College of William & Mary | Williamsburg, VA | |
| 1996 | BA | Mathematics | Brandeis University | Waltham, MA |
