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Employee Profile

Akram Khalilov

Assistant Professor - Department of Accounting and Operations Management

Biography

Akram Khalilov is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Department of Accounting and Operations Management at BI Norwegian Business School. Akram holds a Ph.D. degree (in Business and Finance) from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain).

Akram’s research interests include accounting attributes: Conservatism, Earnings Management, etc.; Insider Trading; Short Selling; Managerial Compensation and Equity Valuation.

For more information, please see Akram’s personal webpage.

Publications

Khalilov, Akram & Garcia Osma, Beatriz (2020)

Accounting conservatism and the profitability of corporate insiders

Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 47(3-4), s. 333- 364. Doi: 10.1111/jbfa.12438

We predict that accounting conservatism influences insiders' opportunities to speculate on good and bad news, and thus, insider trading profitability. We find that greater conditional (unconditional) conservatism is associated with lower (higher) insiders' profitability from sales. We find limited evidence that conservatism influences profitability from purchases. These findings are consistent with our hypotheses on the different informational roles of conditional and unconditional conservatism, and on the asymmetric influence of conservatism over the opportunities to speculate on good versus bad news. Our research design takes into consideration the endogenous nature of insiders' trading and conservatism. The results are robust to different measures of conservatism and a number of additional analyses.

Academic Degrees
Year Academic Department Degree
2020 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid PhD