Haresh Sapra
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
InstitutionUniversity of Chicago
FieldAccounting, Information economics
Alma materUniversity of Houston
University of Minnesota

Haresh Sapra is the Charles T. Horngren Professor of Accounting[1] at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business specializing in the real effects of accounting disclosure and measurement rules.[2] He is currently a senior editor of the Journal of Accounting Research.[3]

Sapra is an applied theorist who is best known for his research on the impact of mark-to-market accounting on bank stability and the role of accounting conservatism on debt contracting.

Education

Sapra graduated from the University of Houston with a bachelor's degree in accounting in 1991. In 2000, he received a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Minnesota.

Career

Sapra has been a member of the faculty at the University of Chicago since 2000. He has been a visiting professor at Imperial College London. His current research focuses on the impact on loan loss provisioning models such as the Current Expected Credit Loss Model (CECL) on banking regulation.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Two Indian-Americans Among 13 Named Professorships at U Chicago". News India Times. 9 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "Haresh Sapra". The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
  3. ↑ "Editorial Information". The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
  4. ↑ Maurer, Mark (11 February 2020). "New Credit-Loss Standard Could Benefit Lenders if Regulators Loosen Capital Requirements, Study Says". Wall Street Journal.
  5. ↑ "Bank loss provisioning rules: a convenient scapegoat in the Covid-19 crisis?". LSE Business Review. 13 May 2020.
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