Elizabeth Demers joined the Department of Accounting and Control at HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne on February 1st, 2018, as Full Professor.
Elizabeth Demers holds a Master of Accounting (University of Waterloo, Canada) and a PhD (Stanford University). She has been teaching MBAs and Executive MBAs around the world, having been on faculty at INSEAD (France), the Darden Graduate School of Business (University of Virginia, USA), the University of Rochester and the University of Michigan (USA).
Her recent research interests are related to the role of non-financial information (including linguistic measures derived from textual analysis of corporate communications) in assessing and predicting firm performance, and the impact of disclosure and communications on the firm’s cost of capital. Her studies, published in the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Review of Accounting Studies, the Harvard Business Review, and other top outlets, have been widely cited in both the academic literature and in the financial press (The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, etc.). Her consulting activities include financial statement analyses and “red flag reviews” for hedge funds and other institutional investors, research and teaching presentations to investment managers, and litigation support for the quantification of economic damages.