Faculty & Research

Joseph P. Weber

Associate Professor of Accounting

Biography

Joseph Weber specializes in empirical work on the importance of accounting information in financial contracts. His recent work documents how an innovation in the commercial debt market — performance pricing — allows for more efficient contracting by reducing the expected renegotiation costs of the contract. Weber's research has recently appeared in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, and the Journal of Accounting and Economics. When not conducting research,Weber teaches the core financial accounting class to first year MBA students at MIT Sloan. Prior to entering academia,Weber worked for Price Waterhouse and AXA Financial.

Working Papers: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=224275