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9 new researchers join MIT Sloan faculty
The new faculty joining MIT Sloan in 2022 are experts in finance, system dynamics, technological innovation, and more.
Jul 6, 2022
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Matt Phillips is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Matt’s research primarily investigates how firms’ informational properties affect commercial lending. He also examines the determinants and consequences of illiquidity in secondary debt markets.
Prior to his academic career, Matt was an auditor at Ernst & Young. He is joining the Accounting group of the Sloan School of Management as an Assistant Professor after receiving his PhD in accounting from the University of Miami. He teaches in the MBA program at MIT Sloan.
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Featured Publication
"Financial Statement Complexity and Bank Lending."
Chakraborty, Indraneel, Andrew J. Leone, Miguel Minutti-Meza, and Matthew A. Phillips. The Accounting Review Vol. 97, No. 3 (2022): 155-178. SSRN Preprint.
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"Contracting in the Dark: The Rise of Public-Side Lenders in the Syndicated Loan Market."
Amiraslani, Hami, John Donovan, Matthew A. Phillips, and Regina Wittenberg Moerman, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6714-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, October 2021.
"The Consequences of Fund-Level Liquidity Requirements."
Chakraborty, Indraneel, Elia Ferracuti, John C. Heater, and Matthew A. Phillips, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6716-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, May 2022.
"The Role of Disclosure in Closing Going Private Deals."
Bianchi, Pietro A., Miguel Minutti-Meza, Matthew A. Phillips, and Maria Vulcheva, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6715-18. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, March 2022.
"Lender Learning."
De George, Emmanuel, John Donovan, Matthew A. Phillips, and Regina Wittenberg-Moerman, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6717-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, January 2022.
"Does Recognition versus Disclosure Affect Debt Contracting? Evidence from SFAS 158."
Donovan, John, Andrew Stephen McMartin, and Matthew A. Phillips, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6713-19. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, September 2021.
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