Kristina Marie Rennekamp

Biography

Kristina Rennekamp is the Nakashimato Professor of accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. Her research examines financial accounting from a behavioral perspective and, particularly, how biases affect managers’ disclosure decisions and users’ judgments with respect to those disclosures. She has taught financial accounting in Cornell’s residential MBA programs in Ithaca and its Executive MBA Americas program.

Rennekamp is the recipient of numerous awards. Her research has been published in leading journals, including the Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Foundations and Trends in Accounting Research, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Financial Reporting and the Review of Accounting Studies.

She received her master’s and doctoral degrees from the Johnson School. Prior to joining Cornell, Rennekamp was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Education

PhD Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, 2012

Research

• Choi, Jung Ho; Pacelli, Joseph; Rennekamp, Kristina; Tomar, Sorabh. "Do Jobseekers Value Diversity Information? Evidence From a Field Experiment and Human Capital Disclosures"Journal of Accounting Research. 61.3 (2023): 695-735
• Rennekamp, Kristina; Sethuraman, Mani; Steenhoven, Blake. "Engagement in earnings conference calls"Journal of Accounting and Economics. 74.1 (2022): 101498
• Bloomfield, Robert J.; Rennekamp, Kristina; Steenhoven, Blake; Stewart, Scott. "Penalties for Unexpected Behavior: Double Standards for Women in Finance"The Accounting Review. 96.2 (2021): 107-125
• Clor-Proell, Shana; Guggenmos, Ryan; Rennekamp, Kristina. "Mobile Devices and Investment News Apps: The Effects of Information Release, Push Notification, and the Fear of Missing Out"The Accounting Review. 95.5 (2020): 95-115
• H. Scott Asay, Hamilton; Libby, Robert; Rennekamp, Kristina. "Firm Performance, Reporting Goals, and Language Choices in Narrative Disclosures"Journal of Accounting and Economics. 65.2-3 (2018): 380-398
• Bonsall IV, Samuel; Leone, Andrew; Miller, Brian; Rennekamp, Kristina. "A Plain English Measure of Financial Reporting Readability"Journal of Accounting and Economics. 63.2-3 (2017): 329-357
• H. Scott Asay, Hamilton; Elliott, W.; Rennekamp, Kristina. "Disclosure Readability and the Sensitivity of Investors' Valuation Judgments to Outside Information"The Accounting Review. 92.4 (2017): 1-25
• Rennekamp, Kristina; Rupar, Kathy; Seybert, Nicholas. "Impaired Judgment: The Effects of Asset Impairment Reversibility and Cognitive Dissonance on Future Investment"The Accounting Review. 90.2 (2015): 739-759
• Rennekamp, Kristina. "Processing Fluency and Investors’ Reactions to Disclosure Readability"Journal of Accounting Research. 50.5 (2012): 1319-1354
• Libby, Robert; Rennekamp, Kristina. "Self-Serving Attribution Bias, Overconfidence, and the Issuance of Management Forecasts"Journal of Accounting Research, Ed. Philip Berger, Ed. Christian Leuz, Ed. Douglas Skinner. 50.1 (2012): 197-231

Awards

• Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor (2022) American Accounting Association/ABO Section
• Referee of the Year (2021) Journal of Accounting Research
• One of Poets and Quants’ Best 40 Under 40 Professors (2017)
• Johnson School Teaching Honor Roll (2014 - 2016) Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
• Best Dissertation Award (2013) AAA Financial Accounting and Reporting Section