Elizabeth Chuk

Academic Positions

PhD, University of Washington (2010)
Assistant Professor, USC (2010 to 2016)
Assistant Professor, UCI (2016 to 2018)
Associate Professor, UCI (2018 to Present)

 

Research Interests

Financial reporting, accounting regulation, defined benefit pensions, earnings management

 

Professional Bio

Professor Elizabeth Chuk earned her PhD from the University of Washington (Seattle) in 2010. Prior to joining UCI in 2016, she was on the faculty at the University of Southern California for six years. Her research has been published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting & Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Management Science. Prior to her doctorate, she was an auditor at Deloitte & Touche. Outside of academia, she serves on the board of directors at Eco-Soap Bank, a nonprofit organization that recycles soap scrap into new bars and distributes them to communities in developing countries.

 

Education

PhD, University of Washington
BS, UC Berkeley

 

Recent Research

  1. “The check is in the mail: Can disclosure reduce late payments to suppliers?”
    • Co-authors: Ben Lourie and Il Sun Yoo
    • Management Science, accepted (2025) (link)
  2. “Managers’ financial reporting incentives”
    • Co-author: Dave Burgstahler
    • Forthcoming, Handbook on the Financial Reporting Environment, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. (2025) (link)
  3. “The impact of governmental accounting standards on public-sector pension funding”
    • Co-author: Divya Anantharaman
    • Review of Accounting Studies 2024, Vol. 29 Pages 1948-1996 (link)
  4. “The economic consequences of accounting standards: Evidence from risk-taking in pension plans”
    • Co-author: Divya Anantharaman
    • The Accounting Review 2018, Volume 93 (4) Pages 23-51 (link)
  5. “What have we learned about earnings management? Integrating discontinuity evidence”
    • Co-author: Dave Burgstahler
    • Contemporary Accounting Research 2017, Vol. 34 (2) Pages 726-749 (link)
  6. “Do scaling and selection explain earnings discontinuities?”
    • Co-author: Dave Burgstahler
    • Journal of Accounting & Economics 2015, Vol. 60 Pages 168-186 (link)
  7. “Assessing methods of identifying management forecasts: CIG vs. researcher collected”
    • Co-authors: Dawn Matsumoto and Greg Miller
    • Journal of Accounting & Economics 2013, Vol. 55 Issue 1 Pages 23-42 (link)
  8. “Economic consequences of mandated accounting disclosures: Evidence from pension accounting standards”
    • Dissertation, solo-authored
    • The Accounting Review 2013, Vol. 88 Issue 2 Pages 395-427 (link)