Petro Lisowsky
Professor, Accounting
Petro (Pete) Lisowsky is a Professor of Accounting at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University and an external research affiliate with the Norwegian Center for Taxation at the Norwegian School of Economics. He was an Associate Professor of Accounting at Boston University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and twice a Visiting Associate Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Lisowsky has research interests in U.S. and international corporate tax policy; tax reporting, disclosure, and organizational form; and financial reporting choices of private companies. His research has been published in several leading accounting journals. Lisowsky has taught various tax and financial accounting courses at the undergraduate, graduate, executive education, and doctoral student levels. He was an academic consultant to the Internal Revenue Service during 2005 – 2021, and worked at the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Defense Department, and Deloitte Tax LLP. He served as President of the American Taxation Association in 2022 – 2023.
Lisowsky holds a BBA and Master of Accounting degrees, both from the University of Michigan, and a PhD from Boston University. He is a licensed CPA.
Education
PhD, Boston University Questrom School of Business, 2008
MAcc, University of Michigan, 2002
BBA, University of Michigan, 2001
Selected Research Presentations
Albuquerque, a. , Bennett, B. , Lisowsky, P. , Wang, Z. The Effect of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Payout Policies, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM), 2024
Donohoe, M. , Jang, H. , Lisowsky, P. Transmission of Tax Cuts through Banks, Bocconi University, 2024
Cobabe, M. , Huang, J. , Lisowsky, P. , Wu, K. The Impact of In-Person Communication in Resolving Tax Uncertainty with the IRS, American Taxation Association Midyear Meeting, 2024
Chiu, T. , Fischer, D. , Lisowsky, P. , Traini, S. Customer Tax Uncertainty and Supplier Investment, American Taxation Association Midyear Meeting, 2024
Lisowsky, P. Discussion of “How Effective are Emission Taxes in Reducing Air Pollution?”, London Business School-Stanford University Global Tax Conference, London, UK, 2023
Lisowsky, P. Does the Story Matter? Putting Financial Statement Numbers into Context Using XBRL Data, University of Texas at Austin, 2022
Lisowsky, P. Book Minimum Tax, Sidley Austin LLP, 2022
Lisowsky, P. Does the Story Matter? Putting Financial Statement Numbers into Context Using XBRL Data, Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2022
Lisowsky, P. , Casi, E. Does the Story Matter? Putting Financial Statement Numbers into Context Using XBRL Data, Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, 2022
Lisowsky, P. Taxes and Investment: Evidence from the “Halloween Massacre” of 2006, American Taxation Association (ATA) Midyear Meeting, 2022
Lisowsky, P. , Burd, C. Does the Story Matter? Putting Financial Statement Numbers into Context Using XBRL Data, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) Midyear Meeting, 2022