Radhika Lunawat Merage School of Business Phone: 949-824-1448 University of California Irvine E-mail: rlunawat@uci.edu Irvine, CA92697 EDUCATION University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management, Minneapolis, MN Ph.D. in Accounting, 2009 Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, India Chartered Accountant, 2003 Calcutta University, India Bachelor of Commerce, 1999 Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Certificate in Computer Science, 2000 ACADEMIC POSITIONS University of California, Irvine Assistant Professor of Accounting, 2013 onwards Assistant Professor of Economics (courtesy appointment), 2015 2016 Carnegie Mellon University Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting, 2012 13 University of St Thomas, Opus College of Business Assistant Professor of Accounting, 2010 2013 Chapman University, Argyros School of Business and Economics Assistant Professor of Accounting, 2009 10 Affiliate, Economic Science Institute (headed by Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith),2009 10 PUBLICATIONS Decision Making and Trade without Probabilities (2011) (joint with Jack Stecher, Kira Pronin and John Dickhaut), Economic Theory 48 (2-3):275-288. The Role of Information in Building Reputation in an Investment / Trust Game, European Accounting Review 22.3 (2013): 513-532. An Experimental Investigation of Reputation Effects of Disclosure in an Investment / Trust Game, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 94 (2013): 130-144. The Impact of Financial Histories on Individuals and Societies: A Replication and Extension of Berg et. al. (joint with Brian Shapiro and Xu Jiang), Research in Experimental Economics Volume on Replication (2015) 95 135. Reputation Effects of Information Sharing, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 131 (2016) 75 91. WORKING PAPERS 1
Soft Disclosure in a Multi-Period Trust Game with Hidden Action (joint with Gregory Waymire and Baohua Xin), 2016 (revise-and-resubmit from Contemporary Accounting Research) Vague Standards are De Facto Aggressive Standards: Their Effects on Prices and Liquidity (joint with Jack Stecher, Kira Pronin and Gaoqing Zhang), 2017 Soft Information Production and Investment in Specific Assets (joint with Shubhashis Gangopadhyay and Clas Wihlborg), 2016 Learning from Prices in Models of Higher-Order Beliefs, 2017 The Demand for Financial Reporting in a Going Concern (joint with Gregory Waymire and Timothy Shields), 2017 Trust, reciprocity, and interpersonal history: Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me (joint with John Dickhaut, Kevin McCabe and John Hubbard), 2008 WORK-IN-PROGRESS An Experimental Investigation of the More We Know, the Less We Agree (joint with Chandra Kanodia), 2017 Scales of Return in Reinvestment Game (joint with Jeroen Suijs), 2016 Liquidity, Information Rents and Dual Reporting (joint with Jack Stecher and Lufei Ruan), 2015 Information and Belief Formation in Assets Markets (joint with Regina Anctil and John O Brien), 2014 OTHER PUBLICATIONS Trust, Reputation and Disclosure in Economic Exchange, Insight Research Quarterly of the Indian School of Business, Vol 2, Issue 1, April June 2014. RESEARCH PESENTATIONS 2017: 2016: UCI-UCLA-USC Accounting Research Conference Southern California Accounting Research Forum South-West Experimental and Behavioral Economics Conference Workshop on Accounting and Economics, Tilburg University Society for Experimental Finance North American Meeting Indian Statistical Institute 12 th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, Delhi Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 2015: (on maternity break during 2015) 2014: 2
2013: Department of Economics, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi Department of Accounting, Indian School of Business Department of Accounting, Temple University Department of Accounting, Emory University University of St Thomas Opus College of Business Research Seminar Junior Accounting Theory Conference 2012: American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Washington Workshop on Accounting and Economics, Segovia, Spain University of St Thomas Opus College of Business Research Seminar Experimental Economics, Accounting and Society: A Conference in Honor of John Dickhaut, 2011: American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado European Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Rome, Italy 2010: Indian Statistical Institute 6 th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, Delhi (on maternity break during 2010) 2009: Department of Accounting, University of St Thomas International Economic Science Association Conference, George Mason University, Washington Department of Accounting, University of Pittsburgh Indian School of Business Department of Accounting, University of Toronto Department of Accounting, University of Alberta Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University 2008: Department of Accounting, London School of Economics American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California International Economic Science Association Conference, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California Econometric Society North American Summer Meeting, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Spring Midwest Economic Theory Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign European Accounting Association Doctoral Colloquium, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2007: Conference in Honor of Vernon Smith, University of Arizona (poster session) 3
Experimental Economics Workshop, University of Minnesota 2006: TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of California-Irvine Managerial Accounting for Management (hybrid) Managerial Accounting for Management Principles of Accounting II Ethics in Accounting and Business Ph.D. seminar on Current Topics in Accounting Including Managerial Theory Carnegie Mellon University Introduction to Accounting Managerial Accounting University of St Thomas Managerial Accounting Chapman University Introduction to Financial Accounting University of Minnesota Introduction to Financial Reporting Lab Instructor Doctoral Program Experimental Economics (taught z-tree) AWARDS AND ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS Vising affiliate, (2 weeks over spring 2017) Council on Research, Computing and Library Resources (CORCLR) grant, University of California, Irvine, 2015 University of St Thomas Awards University of St Thomas Faculty Development Research Grant, 2012 Opus College of Business Summer Research Award, 2011, 2012 Opus College of Business Research Enhancement Course Release, 2011, 2012 Outstanding Ph.D. Student Teaching Award, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, 2009 University of Minnesota Graduate School Fellowship, 2008 (University-wide competition) National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, 2008 U.S. Representative to the European Accounting Association Doctoral Colloquium, 2008 Research visitor, Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations (CIRANO), Montreal (2 weeks over summer and fall, 2008) American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2007 Accounting, Behavior and Organizations Section Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2007 Barcelona LeeX Experimental Economics Summer School in Macroeconomics, 2007 IFREE sponsored 11 th Visiting Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics at Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Sciences, George Mason University, 2005 4
Carlson School of Management Doctoral Fellowships, 2003 09 Carlson School of Management Summer Research Dissertation Fellowship, 2006, 2007 University of Minnesota, Department of Accounting Scholarships Carl Nelson PhD Fellowship in Accounting, 2007 Ernest Heileman PhD Fellowship in Accounting, 2006 Accounting Alumni Ph.D. Fellowship, 2005 Heileman Scholarship, 2004 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Co-founder: Southern California Behavioral Accounting Research Brown Bag Series Conference Co-organizer: Southwest Experimental and Behavioral Economics Annual Conference (2016) Ad hoc reviewer: Southern Economic Journal (2008) Journal of Behavioral Finance (2013, 2016) Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (2013) Borsa Istanbul Review (2014, 2015) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2015 2 papers, 2016) Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (2015) Management Science (2016 2 times) Rand Journal of Economics (2017) International Review of Finance (2017) Computational Economics (2017) Discussant: Accounting Research Workshop, Basel (2013) Workshop on Accounting and Economics (2016) Session Chair: European Accounting Association Annual Meeting (2011) Experimental Economics, Accounting and Society: A Conference in Honor of John Dickhaut, (2012) Workshop on Accounting and Economics (2016) Reviewer: American Accounting Association Annual Meeting (2012, 2015, 2017) Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Mid-year Meeting (2013) International Management Research Academy Indian Institute of Management Bengaluru International Conference (2015) Best Paper Award Committee for Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association (2016) Dissertation Defense Committee: Paula Hao (2016) Proposal Defense Committee: Paula Hao (2014) Jason Ralston (2015) Service at University of California, Irvine: Sub-Committee on Courses (2017 2019) Workshop Organizer for Accounting Area (2016) MPAC Steering Committee (2013 2016) Ph.D. Program Committee (2014) 5