Joshua Ronen, PH.D

Joshua Ronen, a leader in economic analysis, has more than 30 years of experience in economics, finance, accounting and research. He is Professor of Accounting at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant in Israel and practiced public accounting for seven years. He has served as an expert witness in a variety of litigation cases, as consultant to law firms on numerous class action securities litigation cases, and business and patent infringements, and as consultant to accounting firms and to a number of corporations. He also served as a consulting reviewer to Prentice-Hall, the National Science Foundation and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Dr. Ronen has published numerous books, monographs and articles in journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Finance, The Journal of Banking and Finance, The Journal of Business, Management Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Performance. His current research includes the information content of accounting announcements, income smoothing, transfer pricing under uncertainty, incentives for information disclosure, anomalies in capital markets, rational expectation models, incentive contracting, and market microstructure.

Dr. Ronen served as associate director of research for the AICPA Accounting Objective Study Group. He served or is serving on the boards of numerous journals, including The Accounting Review, The Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, The British Accounting Review, The Journal of International Financial Analysis, as well as a special editor of Management Science. He also served as Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance. He is a member of many professional societies, including the American Economic Association, the American Finance Association, the American Accounting Association, the European Finance Association, and the European Accounting Association.

He earned a bachelors degree in accounting and economics from the
Hebrew University and his Ph.D. (1969) in Business Administration from
Stanford University.

Dr. Ronen can be reached at jronen@stern.nyu.edu or at 212.998.4144.