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Elia Ferracuti

Associate Professor of Business Administration
Fuqua School of Business

Overview


Professor Ferracuti is an Associate Professor in the Accounting area. He received his PhD in Accounting from the University of Utah. Professor Ferracuti’s research lies at the intersection between managerial accounting and other disciplines such as financial accounting, corporate finance, and economics. with a focus on how managerial accounting can be used to mitigate the problems created by information asymmetry and information uncertainty. He teaches managerial accounting.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Business Administration · 2024 - Present Fuqua School of Business

In the News


Published March 3, 2026
The Activist Hedge Fund Effect
Published August 7, 2025
The Lucrative Nature of R&D Contracts
Published April 27, 2023
How Firms Can Make Better Decisions During High Inflation

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Recent Publications


Revisiting Stock Market Signals as a Lens for Patent Valuation

Journal Article Organization Science · May 26, 2026 Estimating the private value of patents is important, yet challenging. By developing a method based on stock market returns to produce estimates of individual patent values, Papanikolaou, Seru, and Stoffman (2017) (KPSS) opened venues for new resea ... Full text Cite

Macroeconomic Information Acquisition Around Earnings Clusters

Journal Article Journal of Accounting Research · May 1, 2026 Research shows that investors acquire and process less firm-specific information on days when many firms announce earnings (hereafter earnings clusters). We show that investors gather more macroeconomic information during earnings clusters, that this behav ... Full text Cite

Renegotiation Costs and Debt Contract Design

Journal Article Accounting Review · November 1, 2025 We examine the relation between debt contract renegotiation costs and contract design. We use a plausibly exogenous shock to expected renegotiation costs arising from a change in the taxation of debt renegotiations to show that, as renegotiation costs decl ... Full text Cite
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Education


University of Utah · 2019 Ph.D.

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