Yasuhiro Ohta

Associate Professor of Accounting Graduate School of Business Administration Keio University 223-8526 Japan Tel: +81-45-564-2026 Fax: +81-45-562-3502 SSRN Author Page

Education:

• Ph.D.(Management) State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003.
• M.A.(Economics) University of Tokyo, 1994.
• B.A.(Economics) Keio University, 1992.

Professional Experience:

• September 1, 2005-present, Associate Professor of Accounting, Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan.
• February 1, 2003-August 31, 2005, Assistant Professor of Accounting, School of Administrative Studies, Joseph E. Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• August 1, 2002-January 31, 2003, Lecturer of Accounting, School of Administrative Studies, Joseph E. Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Research Interests:

Selected Publications:

• "The Role of Audit Evidence in a Strategic Audit," Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 28(1), 58-67, January-February 2009.
• "On the Conditions under which Audit Risk Increases with Information," European Accounting Review 17(3), 559-585, September 2008.
• "The Fairness Opinion Puzzle: Board Incentives, Information Asymmetry, and Bidding Strategy," (with Kenton K. Yee) Journal of Legal Studies 37(1), 229-272, January 2008.

Academic Presentations:

• 9th Asian Academic Accounting Association Conference at Dubai, U.A.E., November, 2008.
• 20th Asian Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues at Paris, France, November, 2008.
• 19th Asian Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 12, 2007.
• 18th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting at Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, New York, U.S.A., October 27, 2007.
• American Accounting Association Annual Meeting at Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., August 8, 2007.
• 5th Accounting Research Workshop, at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, June, 30, 2007.
• Japanese Accounting Association Annual Meeting at Senshu University, Tokyo, Japan, September 8, 2006.
• CCRG Conference, Center for Corporate Reporting & Governance, California State University at Fullerton, Irvine, California, U.S.A., April 29, 2005.
• Canadian Academic Accounting Association Conference at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 29, 2004.

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