Ana Albuquerque

Associate Professor, Accounting

Ana Albuquerque completed her PhD in Accounting, her MS and MBA degrees at the University of Rochester, and a BA at the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Portugal. Her research interests lie on the impact of regulation and financial reporting on executive compensation and incentives. Professor Albuquerque has published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, The Accounting Review, Management Science, The Review of Accounting Studies, and her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.

    Education
  • PhD, University of Rochester - William E. Simon School of Business Administration, 2006
  • MS, University of Rochester - William E. Simon School of Business Administration, 2001
  • MBA, University of Rochester - William E. Simon School of Business Administration, 1996
  • BA, Portuguese Catholic University Lisbon, 1992
    Publications
  • Albuquerque, A., Custodio, C., Bennett, B., Cvijanovic, D. (In Press). "CEO Compensation and Real Estate Prices: Pay for Luck or Pay for Action?", Review of Accounting Studies
  • Albuquerque, A., Chen, B., Dong, Q., Riedl, E. (2019). "Ex Post Settling Up in Cash Compensation: New Evidence", Contemporary Accounting Research, 36 (Winter), 2283-2318
  • Albuquerque, A., Zhu, J. (2019). "Has Section 404 of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act Discouraged Corporate Investment? New Evidence from a Natural Experiment", Management Science, 65 (7), 3423-3446
  • Albuquerque, A., Carter, M., Lynch, L. (2015). "Court Intervention as a Governance Mechanism over CEO Pay: Evidence from the Citigroup Derivative Lawsuit", European Accounting Review, 24 (4), 637-658
  • Albuquerque, A. (2014). "Do Growth-Option Firms Use Less Relative Performance Evaluation?", Accounting Review, 89 (1), 27-60
  • Albuquerque, A., De Franco, G., Verdi, R. (2013). "Peer choice in CEO compensation", Journal of Financial Economics, 108 (1), 160-181
  • Albuquerque, A. (2010). "Does firm heterogeneity lead to differences in relative executive compensation?", Finance Research Letters, 7 (2), 80-85
  • Albuquerque, A. (2009). "Peer firms in relative performance evaluation", Journal of Accounting and Economics, 48 (1), 69-89
    Research Presentations
  • Albuquerque, A. The Impact of the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine on CEO Turnover, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria, 2023
  • Albuquerque, A. The Impact of the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine on CEO Turnover, Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation Research Series, Online, 2022
  • Albuquerque, A. How to write a successful PhD project, 2nd Meeting of Grudis Doctoral Students, online, 2022
  • Albuquerque, A. Are ISS Recommendations Informative? Evidence from Assessments of Compensation Practices, University of Illinois Chicago Accounting Research Conference, Chicago, IL, 2022
  • Albuquerque, A. Are ISS Recommendations Informative? Evidence from Assessments of Compensation Practices, European Accounting Association Conference, Bergen, Norway, 2022
  • Albuquerque, A. Are ISS Recommendations Informative? Evidence from Assessments of Compensation Practices, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway, 2022
  • Albuquerque, A. Complexity of CEO Compensation Packages, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2022
  • Albuquerque, A. Are ISS Recommendations Informative? Evidence from Assessments of Compensation Practices, Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research Conference, Singapore, 2022
  • Albuquerque, A. Pay Dispersion and Firm Performance, Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation Research Series, online, 2022
  • Albuquerque, A. Are ISS Recommendations Informative? Evidence from Assessments of Compensation Practices, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2022
  • Albuquerque, A. Are ISS Recommendations Informative? Evidence from Assessments of Compensation Practices, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2022
  • Albuquerque, A. Are ISS Recommendations Informative? Evidence from Assessments of Compensation Practices, Lubrafin Conference, Virtual, 2021
  • Albuquerque, A. Discussant of Structure Homogeneity in CEO Compensation, Management Accounting Section Mid-Year Meeting, Virtual, 2021
  • Albuquerque, A. Discussion of Structure Homogeneity in CEO Compensation, Management Accounting Section 2021, Virtual
    Awards and Honors
  • 2020, Broderick Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Doctoral Program