Edward M. Watts

Edward M. Watts

Associate Professor of Accounting

Yale School of Management

ECGI

I am an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Yale School of Management and a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). My research examines the role of disclosure and information frictions in capital markets, as well as topics in sustainable investing. My recent work focuses on how investors obtain and use information in over-the-counter markets, and the consequences for trading and asset prices. It also explores firms’ human capital management practices and their capital market implications. I teach Sustainable Investing, international courses on sustainable finance and stakeholder capitalism, and regularly deliver guest lectures on sustainability reporting within the MBA accounting curriculum.

Interests

  • Debt Capital Markets
  • Disclosure
  • Investor Behavior
  • Market Microstructure
  • Sustainable Finance

Education

  • Ph.D. in Business Administration, 2020

    Stanford Graduate School of Business

  • M.A. in Economics, 2012

    Duke University

  • B.A. in Mathematics and Economics, 2010

    SUNY Geneseo

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