Jedson Pinto
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Hi! Welcome to my personal website!
I am an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at Dallas since 2020.
I conduct archival research in financial accounting, focusing on disclosure, transparency, and puzzles.
I am a CPA (Brazil, inactive). I teach Fundamentals of Accounting Analytics.
Before joining UTD, I held research and teaching assistant positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at FUCAPE Business School (Brazil).
I am an Ad Hoc Reviewer for the Review of Financial Studies, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, Production and Operations Management (POM), Accounting Horizons, and Journal of Banking & Finance. I also serve as a reviewer and discussant for multiple conferences in our field.
Besides researching and teaching, I enjoy spending time with family and being outdoors [playing soccer, hiking, and meditating].
Research Interests: Disclosure, Information Production, Capital Markets, and ML/AI.
Nationality: Brazilian, Permanent Resident [United States]
“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world”
Selected Working Papers:
On the Usefulness of Guidance Reports [Link], with William Mayew and Xiaoxi Wu
TL;DR: New Granular Data (about disclosure). IBES Guidance contains only 15% of all guidance we observe.
Tags: Information Production, Disclosure, Capital Markets,
Employee Non-Disclosure Agreement and Corporate News, with Cameron Holstead and June Huang
TL;DR: Employees influence firms' information environment.
Tags: Information Production, Disclosure, Media, Regulation.
Judge Financial Holdings and Case Outcomes: Evidence from Judge Financial Disclosures [Link], with Tuhin Harit, Sunil Parupati, and Gil Sadka.
TL;DR: Is Justice blind? Judge's Financial Holdings Predict Case Outcomes.
Tags: Puzzle, Disclosure, Capital Markets, Regulation.
Social Media Toxicity and Capital Markets [Link], with Elizabeth Blankespoor and Kirti Sinha
TL;DR: Using AI, we are the first paper to study hate speech on capital markets.
Tags: Information Production, Disclosure, Machine Learning, Capital Markets.
Selected Work in Progress:
Blockchain Induced Supply-Chain Transparency and Firm Performance: The Role of Capacity Utilization [Link], with Shin Woo Lee, Daniel Rabetti, and Gil Sadka.
TL;DR: Blockchain transparency can hurt firms' profitability.
Tags: Information Production, Transparency, Capital Markets,
Unmasking the Exchange Rate Exposure Puzzle: How Segment Reporting Quality Reveals Hidden Risks
Tags: Disclosure; Information Production; Real Effects; Puzzle
Publications & Accepted Papers:
Beyond Words: The Challenge of Measuring Financial Text Across Borders, with Federico Siano
Conditionally Accepted in the Journal of International Business Studies.
TL;DR: Common US-based NLP approaches falter across international markets.
Tags: Disclosure, Machine Learning, Culture, Capital Markets.
How Does Going Public Affect Employees? Evidence from Glassdoor Reviews, with Meng Li
Accepted in the Management Science.
TL;DR: Employees are less satisfied after an IPO [Regulatory Burden is one reason behind this result].
Tags: Puzzle, Financial Reporting, Disclosure, Regulation.
Published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics (2024)
TL;DR: Unbundling and separate research pricing has severe unintended consequences for the sell-side industry (MiFID II led to a brain drain).
Tags: Information Production, Regulation, Transparency.
Published in the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting (2024)
TL;DR: Data transparency regulations have significant costs, but they help protect at least 34 million records from being leaked every year.
Tags: Regulation, Transparency, Capital Markets.
Published in Management Science (2023)
TL;DR: Short sellers shape the content in the business press.
Tags: Information Production, Disclosure, Media.
Published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics (2023)
TL;DR: Reduced mandatory disclosure can increase price efficiency.
Tags: Disclosure, Information Production, IPOs, Puzzle.