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Mary Ellen Carter
Professor and Joseph L. Sweeney Chair
Mary Ellen Carter
Contact
Fulton Hall 538
Telephone: 617-552-2144
Email: maryellen.carter.1@bc.edu
Education
- BS, Babson College
- MBA, Boston College
- Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests
Financial Accounting; Executive Compensation; and Corporate Governance
Expertise
- Financial and Managerial Accounting
Department
Selected Publications
“Board committee overlap and the use of earnings in CEO compensation contracts.” (With Melissa Martin and Luann Lynch.) Management Science, 68 (8). August, 2022.
“The Effect of Supplier Industry Competition on Pay-for-Performance Incentive Intensity.” (With Jen Choi and Karen Sedatole.) Journal of Accounting and Economics, 71 (2-3). April-May 2021.
“The Participation Constraint and CEO Equity Grants” (With Brian Cadman and Xiaoxia Peng.) The Accounting Review, 96 (1), 67-89. January 2021.
“Matching Premiums in Executive Labor Markets.” (With Francesca Franco and Irem Tuna.) The Accounting Review, 94 (6), 109-136. November, 2019
“Executive Gender Pay Gaps: The Roles of Female Risk Aversion and Board Representation” (With Francesca Franco and Mireia Gine.) Contemporary Accounting Research, 34 (2), 1232-1264. November, 2016.
“Institutional Investor Preferences for Corporate Governance Mechanisms” (With Brian Bushee and Joseph Gerakos.) Journal of Management Accounting Research, 26 (2), 123-149. 2014.
“Compensation Peer Groups and the Relation to Executive Compensation” (With Brian Cadman.) Journal of Management Accounting Research, 26 (1), 57-82. April, 2014
“The Incentives of Compensation Consultants on CEO Pay” (With Brian Cadman and Stephen Hillegeist.) Journal of Accounting and Economics, 49 (3), 263-280. April, 2010.
“Explicit Relative Performance Evaluation in Performance-Vested Equity Grants” (With Christopher Ittner and Sarah Zechman.) Review of Accounting Studies, 14 (2-3), 260-306. February, 2009.
“The Role of Accounting in the Design of CEO Equity Compensation” (With Luann Lynch and Irem Tuna.) The Accounting Review, 82 (2), 327-357. March, 2007.
Selected Appointments, Awards, and Grants
- Ernst & Young Faculty Fellow, 2021-2022
- Coughlin Distinguished Teaching Award, 2019
- Best Paper at the Review of Accounting Studies Conference, 2008
- 8th Annual Glenn McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics, 2006
Editorial Positions
- Editor, The Accounting Review (2023-present)
- Editor, Journal of Management Accounting Research (2019-2023)
- Associate Editor, Management Science (2021-present)
- Associate Editor, European Accounting Review (2016-2019)
- Ad-hoc Editor, Contemporary Accounting Research (2020, 2021)
Professional Activities
Before joining the faculty at Boston College, Professor Carter was an Assistant Professor at the Columbia Business School of Columbia University and at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a CPA and, prior to her academic career, worked for Coopers and Lybrand in Boston as a senior audit associate.