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Andrew Sutherland is the Ford International Career Development Professor of Accounting and an Associate Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

His research focuses on financial institutions, and covers three broad areas: (1) how entrepreneurs and privately held firms obtain credit; (2) information sharing and technology adoption; and (3) auditing and financial misconduct. His work is published in top accounting, finance, and management journals, and has won has won multiple major awards.

Sutherland previously worked as a consultant advising companies throughout the U.S. and Latin America on valuation, investment policy, performance measurement, and executive compensation.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from York University, an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, and a PhD from the University of Chicago. He teaches in the MBA and Master of Finance programs at MIT Sloan.

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Sutherland wins Best Archival Paper Award

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"Can Ethics be Taught? Evidence from Securities Exams and Investment Adviser Misconduct."

Kowaleski, Zachary T., Andrew Sutherland, and Felix W. Vetter. Journal of Financial Economics Vol. 138, No. 1 (2020): 159-175. Download Paper.

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"Commercial Lending Concentration and Bank Expertise: Evidence from Borrower Financial Statements."

Berger, Philip G., Michael Minnis, and Andrew Sutherland. Journal of Accounting and Economics Vol. 64, No. 2-3 (2017): 253-277. SSRN.

"How Voluntary Information Sharing Systems Form: Evidence from a U.S. Commercial Credit Bureau."

Liberti, José, Jason Sturgess, and Andrew Sutherland. Journal of Financial Economics Vol. 145, No. 3 (2022): 827-849. SSRN.

"RegTech."

Charoenwong, Ben, Zachary T Kowaleski, Alan Kwan, and Andrew Sutherland, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6563-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, January 2022.

"Learning about Competitors: Evidence from SME Lending."

Darmouni, Olivier and Andrew Sutherland. Review of Financial Studies Vol. 34, No. 5 (2021): 2275–2317. SSRN. Download Paper.

"Institutional Investor Attention and Firm Disclosure."

Abramova, Inna, John E. Core, and Andrew Sutherland. The Accounting Review Vol. 95, No. 6 (2020): 1-21. SSRN. Download Preprint.

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