Publications & Working Papers

"Do Public Financial Statements Influence Venture Capital and Private Equity Financing?"
Baik, Brian K., Natalie Berfeld, and Rodrigo S. Verdi. The Accounting Review Vol. 100, No. 2 (2025): 1-203. SSRN Preprint.
"Litigation Risk and Strategic M&A Valuations."
Imperatore, Claudia, Gabriel Pundrich, Rodrigo Verdi, and Benjamin Yost. Journal of Accounting and Economics Vol. 78, No. 1 (2024): 101671. SSRN Preprint.
"A Measure of Financial Statement Benchmarking."
Hoitash, Rani, Udi Hoitash, Ahmet Kurt, and Rodrigo Verdi. The Accounting Review Vol. 98, No. 6 (2023): 253-281. Firm Benchmarking Measure. SSRN Preprint.
"The Pecking Order and Financing Decisions: Evidence From Changes to Financial-Reporting Regulation."
Naranjo, Patricia, Daniel Saavedra, and Rodrigo Verdi. Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance Vol. 37, No. 4 (2022): 727–750. Download Paper.
"Calendar Rotations: A New Approach for Studying the Impact of Timing using Earnings Announcements."
Noh, Suzie, Eric So, and Rodrigo Verdi. Journal of Financial Economics Vol. 140, No. 3 (2021): 865-893. Download Paper.
"Discussion of Economic Consequences of IFRS Adoption: The Role of Changes in Disclosure Quality."
Narano, Patricia and Rodrigo Verdi. Contemporary Accounting Research Vol. 38, No. 1 (2021): 129-179. Download Paper.
"CEO Tax Effects on Acquisition Structure and Value."
Hanlon, Michelle, Rodrigo Verdi, and Benjamin Yost. The Accounting Review Vol. 96, No. 2 (2021): 333-363. SSRN Preprint.
"Do Firms Strategically Internalize Disclosure Spillovers? Evidence from Cash-Financed M&As”."
Kim, Jinhwan, Rodrigo Verdi, and Benjamin Yost. Journal of Accounting Research Vol. 58, No. 5 (2020): 1249-1297. Download Paper.
"The Effects of Financial Reporting and Disclosure on Corporate Investment: A Review."
Roychowdhury, Sugata, Nemit Shroff, and Rodrigo Verdi. Journal of Accounting and Economics Vol. 68, No. 2-3 (2019): 101246. Download Paper.
"When Does the Peer Information Environment Matter?"
Shroff, Nemit, Rodrigo Verdi, and Benjamin P. Yost. Journal of Accounting and Economics Vol. 64, No. 2-3 (2017): 183-214.
"Analysts’ Forecasts and Asset Pricing: A Survey."
Kothari, SP, Eric So, and Rodrigo Verdi. Annual Review of Financial Economics Vol. 8, (2016): 197-219.
"The Effect of Repatriation Tax Costs on U.S. Multinational Investment."
Hanlon, Michelle, Rebecca Lester and Rodrigo Verdi. Journal of Financial Economics Vol. 116, No. 1 (2015): 179-196.
"Mandatory Disclosure Quality, Inside Ownership, and Cost of Capital."
Core, John E., Luzi Hail and Rodrigo Verdi. European Accounting Review Vol. 24, No. 1 (2015): 1-29.
"Information Environment and the Investment Decisions of Multinationals Corporations."
Shroff, Nemit, Rodrigo Verdi, and Gwen Yu. The Accounting Review Vol. 89, No. 2 (2014): 759-790.
"The Relation between Reporting Quality and Financing and Investment: Evidence from Shocks to Financing Capacity."
Balakrishnan, Karthik, John E. Core, and Rodrigo Verdi. Journal of Accounting Research Vol. 52, No. 1 (2014): 1-36.
"Management Forecast Credibility and the Underreaction to News."
Ng, Jeffrey, Irem Tuna and Rodrigo Verdi. Review of Accounting Studies Vol. 18, No. 4 (2013): 956-986.
"Adopting a Label: Heterogeneity in the Economic Consequences around IAS/IFRS Adoptions."
Daske, Holger, Luzi Hail, Christian Leuz and Rodrigo Verdi. Journal of Accounting Research Vol. 51, No. 3 (2013): 495-547.
"Peer Choice in CEO Compensation."
Albuquerque, Ana, Gus DeFranco and Rodrigo Verdi. Journal of Financial Economics Vol. 108, No. 1 (2013): 160-181. Stata Program. Data Set.
"Discussion of ‘Financial Reporting Frequency, Information Asymmetry and the Cost of Equity'."
Verdi, Rodrigo S. Journal of Accounting and Economics Vol. 54, No. 2-3 (2012): 150-153.
"Investor Competition over Information and the Pricing of Information Asymmetry."
Akins, Brian, Jeffrey Ng and Rodrigo Verdi. The Accounting Review Vol. 87, No. 1 (2012): 35-58.
"The Benefits of Financial Statement Comparability."
DeFranco, Gus, S.P. Kothari, and Rodrigo Verdi. Journal of Accounting Research Vol. 49, No. 4 (2011): 895-931. Data Sets.
"The Value of Earnings Comparability."
DeFranco, Gus, S.P. Kothari and Rodrigo S. Verdi. Journal of Accounting Research Vol. 49, No. 4 (2011): 895-931.
"How Does Financial Reporting Quality Relate to Investment Efficiency?"
Biddle, Gary C., Gilles Hilary, and Rodrigo Verdi. Journal of Accounting and Economics Vol. 48, No. 2-3 (2009): 112-131.
"Dividend Clienteles, New Insights and New Questions: The Brazilian Case."
Procianoy, Jairo and Rodrigo S. Verdi. Business Administration Review (Revista de Adminstração de Empresas – Electrônica) Vol. 8, No. 1 (2009).
"The Determinants and Consequences of the Adoption to Brazilian New Markets."
Procianoy, Jairo and Rodrigo S. Verdi. Brazilian Review of Finance (Revista Brasileira de Finanças) Vol. 7, No. 1 (2009): 1-30.
"Is Accruals Quality a Priced Risk Factor?"
Core, John E., Wayne R. Guay and Rodrigo Verdi. Journal of Accounting and Economics Vol. 46, No. 1 (2008): 2-22.
"Mandatory IFRS Reporting Around the World: Early Evidence on the Economic Consequences."
Daske, Holger, Luzi Hail, Christian Leuz and Rodrigo Verdi. Journal of Accounting Research Vol. 46, No. 5 (2008): 1085-1142.
"Implications of Transaction Costs for Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift."
Ng, Jeffrey, Tjomme O. Rusticus and Rodrigo Verdi. Journal of Accounting Research Vol. 46, No. 3 (2008): 661-696.
"The Market Reaction to Changes in the Ibovespa Index."
Procianoy, Jairo Laser and Rodrigo S. Verdi. Brazilian Review of Finance (Revista Brasileira de Finanças) Vol. 4, No. 2 (2006): 141-167.
"Agency Problems of Excess Endowment Holdings in Not-For-Profit Firms."
Core, John E., Wayne R. Guay and Rodrigo Verdi. Journal of Accounting and Economics Vol. 41, No. 3 (2006): 307-333.
"Stock Market Anomalies: What Can We Learn From Repurchases and Insider Trading?"
Core, John E., Wayne R. Guay, Scott A. Richardson and Rodrigo Verdi. Review of Accounting Studies Vol. 11, No. 1 (2006): 49-70.
"Dividend Clienteles in The Brazilian Market: Are the Investors Irrational?"
Procianoy, Jairo Laser and Rodrigo S. Verdi. Brazilian Review of Finance (Revista Brasileira de Finanças) Vol. 2, No. 2 (2003): 217-242.

"The Innovation Consequences of Judicial Efficiency."
Shi, Tianshuo, Jinhwan Kim, and Rodrigo Verdi, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6832-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, June 2024.
"Do Public Financial Statements Influence Venture Capital and Private Equity Financing?"
Baik, Brian K., Natalie Berfeld, and Rodrigo Verdi, MIT Sloan Working Paper 5869-19. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, July 2022.
"Why do Foreign Investors Demand Comparability? Evidence from Unsponsored ADRs."
Kalay, Alon, Rodrigo Verdi, and Yu Ting Forester Wong, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6319-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, October 2020.

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