Shyam Sunder (economist)
Shyam Sunder | |
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| Born | July 10, 1944 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | IIT Kharagpur (transferred out); Indian Railway Institute of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering; Carnegie Mellon University |
| Doctoral advisor | Yuji Ijiri, Robert S. Kaplan, Edward C. Prescott & Richard Roll |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Accounting Theory and Experimental Economics |
| Institutions | Yale School of Management |
| Notable ideas | Standards and Norms of Financial Reporting; Information in Security Markets; Market Properties with Zero Intelligence Traders; Simpson's Paradox in Cost Accounting |
| Awards | American Accounting Association’s Outstanding Accounting Educator (2013); American Accounting Association's Manuscript Award (1975); The Accounting Hall of Fame (2020) |
| Website | |
Shyam Sunder (born July 10, 1944) is an accounting theorist and experimental economist. He is the James L. Frank Professor of accounting, economics, and finance at the Yale School of Management; a professor in Yale University’s Department of Economics; and a Fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center.