Lucile Faurel earned her bachelor’s degree in international economics. After working in transfer pricing for Deloitte & Touche Paris, she earned her doctorate from New York University. Prior to joining the W. P. Carey School, she served on the faculty of the University of California, Irvine.
Within capital markets research, her research interests include the role of social media in capital markets, the (mis)pricing of accounting information, voluntary disclosure choices, corporate innovation, and insider trading. Her research has been published in top accounting journals, including the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, and The Accounting Review. She is an award-winning teacher who teaches MBA-level courses in financial accounting and financial statement analysis. When not teaching or conducting research, she enjoys hiking, skiing, tennis, traveling, and being a mother of three.
Recently, she was selected as Poets & Quants' Best 40 Under 40 Business Professors:
"Do Proprietary Costs Deter Insider Trading?" with Lyungmae Choi and Stephen Hillegeist. Management Science, forthcoming
“Firm-Level Investor Favoritism and the External Financing and Capital Expenditures Anomalies,” with Mark Soliman, Jessica Watkins and Teri Yohn, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 64, 2025, 237–274
"Bringing Innovation to Fruition: Insights from New Trademarks," with Qin Li, Devin Shanthikumar, and Siew Hong Teoh. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 59(2), March 2024, 474–520
"The Role of Social Media in the Corporate Bond Market: Evidence from Twitter," with Eli Bartov and Partha Mohanram. Management Science 69(9), September 2023, 5638–5667
“Insider Trading, Future Earnings and Post-Earnings Announcement Drift,” with Lyungmae Choi and Stephen Hillegeist. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 42(4), July-August 2023, 1–25
"The Issuance and Informativeness of Management Long-Term Earnings Growth Forecasts," with Tim Haight and Andreas Simon. Accounting Horizons 32(3), September 2018, 1–27
“Can Twitter Help Predict Firm-Level Earnings and Stock Returns?” with Eli Bartov and Partha Mohanram. The Accounting Review 93(3), May 2018, 25–57
“Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Patterns in Stock Returns around Executive Stock Option Exercise Disclosures,” with Eli Bartov. Accounting & Finance 56(2), June 2016, 297–332
“Economic Determinants and Information Environment Effects of Earnouts: New Insights from SFAS 141(R),” with Brian Cadman and Richard Carrizosa. Journal of Accounting Research 52(1), Mar 2014, 37–74
“Manager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers,” with Francois Brochet and Sarah McVay. Journal of Accounting Research 49(5), Dec 2011, 1123–1162
“Post Loss/Profit Announcement Drift,” with Karthik Balakrishnan and Eli Bartov. Journal of Accounting and Economics 50(1), May 2010, 20–41
Best Paper Prize, California Corporate Finance Conference, 2012; Best Paper Prize, Center for Corporate Reporting and Governance Annual Academic Conference, 2010
UCI Paul Merage School of Business, Don Beall Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Research Grant Award, 2012, 2014
UCI Academic Senate Council on Research, Computing & Library Resources (CORCL) Award, 2008-2012, 2014
UCI Paul Merage School of Business, Excellence in Undergraduate Education Teaching Award, 2012-13; NYU Stern School of Business, Award for Ph.D. Teaching Excellence, 2006
NYU Stern School of Business, Marcus Nadler Fellowship, 2007-2008; Deloitte & Touche Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, 2005-2008
Work History
Arizona State University: 2015-present. Previous appointments: University of California, Irvine, 2008-2015.
Service
Deloitte & Touche, Transfer Pricing Group, Senior Economist, 2001-2003
