Kristina Marie Rennekamp

Biography

Kristina Rennekamp is a professor of accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. Her research examines financial accounting from a behavioral perspective and, particularly, how biases affect managers' disclosure decisions and users' judgments with respect to those disclosures. She has taught financial accounting in the residential MBA programs in Ithaca, and in Cornell's Executive MBA Americas.

Rennekamp is the recipient of numerous awards. Her research has been published in leading journals, including the Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Foundations and Trends in Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Financial Reporting, and the Review of Accounting Studies.

Rennekamp received her MS and PhD from the Johnson School. Prior to joining Cornell, she was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Selected Publications

• Bloomfield, Robert J.; Rennekamp, Kristina; Steenhoven, Blake. "No System is Perfect: Understanding how Registration-Based Editorial Processes Affect Reproducibility and Investment in Research Quality"Journal of Accounting Research. 56.2 (2018): 313-362
• H. Scott Asay, Hamilton; Libby, Robert; Rennekamp, Kristina. "Firm Performance, Reporting Goals, and Language Choices in Narrative Disclosures"Journal of Accounting and Economics. 65.2-3 (2018): 380-398
• Bonsall IV, Samuel; Leone, Andrew; Miller, Brian; Rennekamp, Kristina. "A Plain English Measure of Financial Reporting Readability"Journal of Accounting and Economics. 63.2-3 (2017): 329-357
• H. Scott Asay, Hamilton; Elliott, W.; Rennekamp, Kristina. "Disclosure Readability and the Sensitivity of Investors' Valuation Judgments to Outside Information"The Accounting Review. 92.4 (2017): 1-25
• Elliott, W.; Rennekamp, Kristina; White, Brian. "Does Concrete Language in Disclosures Increase Willingness to Invest?"Review of Accounting Studies. 20.2 (2015): 839-865
• Rennekamp, Kristina; Rupar, Kathy; Seybert, Nicholas. "Impaired Judgment: The Effects of Asset Impairment Reversibility and Cognitive Dissonance on Future Investment"The Accounting Review. 90.2 (2015): 739-759
• Libby, Robert; Rennekamp, Kristina; Seybert, Nicholas. "Regulation and the Interdependent Roles of Managers, Auditors, and Directors in Earnings Management and Accounting Choice"Accounting, Organizations and Society. 47 (2015): 25-42
• Rennekamp, Kristina. "Processing Fluency and Investors’ Reactions to Disclosure Readability"Journal of Accounting Research. 50.5 (2012): 1319-1354
• Libby, Robert; Rennekamp, Kristina. "Self-Serving Attribution Bias, Overconfidence, and the Issuance of Management Forecasts"Journal of Accounting Research, Ed. Philip Berger, Ed. Christian Leuz, Ed. Douglas Skinner. 50.1 (2012): 197-231

Awards and Honors

• One of Poets and Quants’ Best 40 Under 40 Professors (2017)
• Johnson School Teaching Honor Roll (2016) Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
• Best Dissertation Award (2013) AAA Financial Accounting and Reporting Section

Recent Courses

• NCC 5000/LAW 6460 - Financial Accounting
• NRE 5040 - PhD Seminar in Accounting

Academic Degrees

• PhD Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, 2012